Paesmühle

The pond was originally a reservoir for the Paesmühle.

The Paesmühle was a water mill in Straelen on Moelenbeek with an overshot water wheel . Two grinding mills and an oil mill could be operated here at weddings. Today the term Paesmühle is used as a place name for the farm and its surroundings, on which the actual mill stood until 1922.

The Paesmühle was in Straelen-Dam. The driving water came from the spring wells only a few hundred meters away from the valley of the seven springs and was dammed in the mill pond, which still exists as a pond today, with the help of a dam. This made possible the overshot waterwheel drive, which is otherwise rare on the Lower Rhine . The "Moelenbeek" (high German: Mühlbach) flows into the Leitgraben after about one kilometer.

History of the Paesmühle

The first indirect mention of the mill, which is called "Paesmühle" much later and was at that time by a hen in ger Molen (probably only leased), is in a tax list from 1369. The first proven owner of the mill (and the Hofes) is the van Asselt family from Nieukerk , as can be seen from a document from 1437 that regulates how much the tenants, now the Mueskens family, have to pay the owners annually. Despite changing tenants and owners, a register from 1657 still mentions the “ muiskens hoff mit der moolen ”.

A new owner was not mentioned until 1739: the widow of Goosen Paess . It is probably their son who is mentioned in a letter from the bailiff von Straelen to the Prussian king in 1742 . In the same letter, the name "Paesmühle" is also used for the first time. It is probably also the Paes family who built the “actual Paesmühlenhof” in 1710.

Between 1883 and 1887 the doctor Dr. Max Bönninger from Hagen den Mühlenhof and invests: With improved technology, an additional oil mill and a bakery , they want to be “ competitive (...) against the large industrial mills ”. In 1891 the last miller, Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen, took over the Paesmühle (without the farm). With Janssen's death in 1917, the mill was stopped. The building is falling into disrepair and is finally demolished in 1922.

History of Paesmühle

Instead, Paul Thum built a mansion on the site of the "Paesmühlenhof" in 1923 , which is now a listed building.

Chapel in Paesmühle

On the initiative of the clergyman Franz Aengenvoort , who was active in the Catholic youth movement and in the Duisburg parish of St. Josef, the site soon became a “recreation center for industrial youth ”. In 1928 a "low-cost model steel house" was inaugurated to accommodate the young people. The "Herrenhaus Paesmühle" is now available to the rector of the youth home, Max Hild. The barn of the “Paesmühlenhof” is converted into a chapel and is consecrated in 1930 to John the Baptist .

Under the rule of the National Socialists , the Catholic youth home Paesmühle was expropriated in 1938 and used from 1941 to “educate people about National Socialist sentiments”. In 1944 the home was given up and instead occupied by German soldiers and in 1945 by those of the British Army . Paesmühle can only be returned to the Duisburg parish of St. Josef in 1951.

In 1965, with the construction of the Bundeswehr depot, part of the surrounding area was lost. The city of Straelen bought Paesmühle in 1984 in order to maintain a local recreation area here. In the chapel in Paesmühle, which was rebuilt in 1977 and renovated in 1981, weddings take place on certain dates today . The mansion is currently used by the GasLINE company.

literature

• Wolfgang Dassel: The valley of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen (Ed.): Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, pp. 5-19.
• Stefan Frankewitz : The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen (Ed.): Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, pp. 21-36.
• Bernhard Keuck: History of the youth home Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen (Ed.): Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, pp. 37-93.

Web links

Commons : Paesmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz: The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 22f.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Dassel: The valley of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 16
3. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz: The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 24ff.
4. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz: The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 27f.
5. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz: The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 31
6. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz: The history of the Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 33. According to Frankewitz, the mill broke down in 1923.
7. ↑ Bernhard Keuck: History of Jugenheims Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 42
8. ↑ Bernhard Keuck: History of Jugenheims Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 43
9. ↑ Bernhard Keuck: History of Jugenheims Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 45
10. ↑ Bernhard Keuck: History of Jugenheims Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 48
11. ↑ Bernhard Keuck: History of Jugenheims Paesmühle. In: Stadt Straelen [Hrsg.]: Paesmühle near Straelen. Watermill, youth home, excursion destination. Straelen 1990, p. 81f.
12. ↑ http://www.straelen.de/C12570F1002C3C03/html/C61E000922F9F961C12571390055741D?opendocument
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