Ophover Mill

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Ophover Mill

Ophover Mill in Wegberg

Ophover Mill in Wegberg

Location and history
Ophover Mühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ophover Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '10 "  N , 6 ° 17' 3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '10 "  N , 6 ° 17' 3"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
DEU District of Heinsberg COA.svg District of Heinsberg
DEU Wegberg COA.svg Wegberg
Waters Beeckbach
Built 1627 mentioned in the lease
Shut down 1957 (mill operation)
Status Restaurant u. Monument No. 142
technology
use Grain mill
Grinder 2 grinding courses
drive Watermill
water wheel Iron wheel, undershot
Website Ophover Mill

The Ophover Mill is a water mill with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Ophover Mühle is located in Forst in the middle town of Wegberg in the Heinsberg district . The mill building near the Wegberger school and sports center is on the left side of the Beeckbach. In front of the mill is a large mill pond, the water level of which is 64 m above sea level. NN lies.

Waters

The Beeck Bach is a partially artificially dug in 1928 Bach, who in Erkelenz at the treatment plant starts and clarified waste water and surface water of the city Erkelenz and parts of the city receives Wegberg and derives. The natural springs of the Beeckbach in Moorshoven were filled in in 1906. The Beeckbach has a length of 9,154 m and flows through several flood retention basins. The beginning of the stream is at a height of 83 m above sea level. NN, the confluence with the Schwalm in Wegberg at 63 m above sea level. NN. The Beeckbach feeds the mill pond of the Ophover mill. After the cessation of the mill operations in 1973 the mill pond was redesigned as a flood retention basin and the area was expanded. Care and maintenance is the responsibility of the Schwalm Association , which is based in Brüggen .

More protection against floods, according to a press release from January 26, 2012. In the past few years there has been an increasing number of extremely heavy rains due to climate change. For reasons of flood protection, the Schwalm Association therefore considers it urgently necessary that the area at Ophover Mühlenweiher be redesigned. "The project represents an absolute revaluation of the area at the Ophover mill compared to the current state".

history

The Ophover mill probably dates from the 14th century. Its name goes back to the noble family of the "von Ophoven" who had their farm on the site of the nearby Motte and operated the mill. 1639 was Tewis (Mathaeus) Vell Müller of Ophover Mühle (dat Müllererken uff der Freyheit). The mill register then shows the widow of Johann Wilhelm Menz as the owner in 1826. The mill was a grain mill with two speeds and an undershot water wheel. From 1867 it was a water and steam mill , so it also worked with a steam engine drive. It was Wegberg's last mill that still worked with water power. It was shut down in 1965.

Monument entry

Erected in the middle of the 19th century; four-winged system in brick with a crooked hip roof ; Main building two-storey in six axes; Door frames and window sills in bluestone; the outbuildings on one storey a little lower, everything with a crooked hip; The wall of the main building on which the iron mill wheel stands was later renewed in brick; the year 1857 in the lintel; the mill pond has also been preserved (monument no. 142).

  • The mill building

  • Back of the mill

  • The mill wheel

  • The grain funnel

  • The royal wheel

  • The grain mill

  • Year 1725 on the mill

  • Mill pond and retention basin

  • The mill in 1983

  • The mill in 1952

  • The moth at the mill

literature

  • Lower Rhine water mills - guide by Hans Vogt
  • The Schwalm - Valley of the Mills by Horst Jungblut - Helmut Elstner
  • Home book of the city of Wegberg - Compiled by Heinz Cohnen
  • Wegberg cultural guide
  • Local calendar Heinsberg 2010 - The Junkers of Ophoven - by Dietmar Schmitz
  • Home calendar Heinsberg 2012 - The Ophover Mill - by Dietmar Schmitz

Web links

Commons : Ophover Mill  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.schwalmverband.de/
  2. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/niederrhein-sued/kreis-heinsberg/nachrichten/mehr-schutz-vor-hochwasser-1.2685927
  3. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/niederrhein-sued/kreis-heinsberg/nachrichten/eine-herzenssache-1.689073