Obermühle Neumorschen
The Obermühle Neumorschen is a former watermill , which was closed in 1958, on the southwest edge of the village of Neumorschen , a district of the municipality of Morschen in the Schwalm-Eder district in Hesse . It is located on Mühlenweg 2, about 100 m north of the L 3225 state road , which leads from Neumorschen to Wichte .
history
Neumorschen, located on the Fulda and its tributary Wichte , was an important mill town, after Spangenberg the most important in the former Landgrave-Hessian office of Spangenberg . There were a total of five mills in the village, including the Wogmühle / Waagmühle, owned by the landgrave, the Heckmühle (or Heckenmühle), both on the Fulda, and the Obermühle on the Wichte.
The upper mill can be traced for more than 400 years: the "overshot hereditary mill with one grinding process" was privately owned and is mentioned in the Spangenberger Salbuch from 1540. The mill was of secondary importance, as most of the places had already been " banned " to the Waagmühle .
In 1564, Heintze Sachse Müller was in the Obermühle. By 1579 at the latest it belonged to Conrad Redder; he paid 5 Albus for the waterway as well as a further 6 Albus and 1 quarter (3 hundredweight) wheat and delivered 2 geese and 4 roosters annually to the landgrave's rent master. In 1618 the "Obermoln" is also mentioned in invoices. At that time Florian Herting was paying 8 metzes of wheat. It is possible that Hans Herting was his brother in the Heckenmühle on the other side of the Fuldaufer.
In 1628 the Obermühle was named in a trial: The court mayor and landlord in the Weinhaus (today's town hall) Paul Ewel and two villagers destroyed the mill weir and had to pay a fine of six guilders and serve three nights' tower fine.
The miller's letter of 1710 stipulated that if the miller died, his family had to pay 2 guilders, as well as if the landgrave died. The property with mill and barn was 1½ Kassel Acker ; there was also a garden in front and behind. The mill also had 32 acres of land, as well as a horse, an ox, two cows and 20 sheep. The total value of the business was then given as 450 thalers . Every year around 180 quarters (around 225 quintals ) of grist of various fruits were produced. Taxes had to be paid to the Haydau monastery and the church in Spangenberg.
The most interesting owner of the mill was probably from 1794 the schoolmaster Ellenberger, who was also head miller, teacher, farmer and soon also court schoolteacher of the court "uff der Fulda" with seat Altmorschen in the office of Spangenberg, Schultheiss and administrative officer for old and neworschen, Wichte , Konnefeld , Binsförth and Heina , what is today the Fahre domain and the Grüneismühle in the Beisetal.
Jacob Kerste from Konnefeld acquired the mill in 1862. He was followed by his son Arnold. When his death his children were still small, so that the widow Martha Kerste nee. Ehrenfried ran the farm and mill until his son Heinrich was able to take them over in 1932. His daughter Elfriede married the farmer Arnold Selhausen from Eubach , who was no longer a miller and who shut down the mill, which had now become unprofitable, in 1958.
Mill
The mill was driven by an overshot water wheel 4.50 m in diameter and 0.9 m wide. The difference in height was about 4.80 m. The channel was made of sheet iron 0.80 / 0.70 m wide. There was a flap above the mill wheel through which the process water could be turned on and off.
It operated two grinding mills , a shot mill and a roller mill, as well as a gang saw and a circular saw , and later also a turbine for generating electrical power. The usable power was about 7 horsepower . The maximum output was around 20 quintals per day.
literature
- Waltari Bergmann : Neumorschen 1259-1959. Edited by the Morschen community, Neumorschen, 1959
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Footnotes
- ↑ She was u. a. Advertised for lease in 1751 ( Casselsche Policey-Gelehre und Commercien-Zeitung, June 28, 1751, p. 205, and July 12, 1751, p. 222 )
- ↑ Heckenmühle, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 42.6 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 13.8" E