Petersmühle (Blatzheim)

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Petersmühle

Mill location in the original cadastre from 1846

Mill location in the original cadastre from 1846

Location and history
Petersmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Petersmühle
Coordinates 50 ° 51 '16 "  N , 6 ° 37' 57"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '16 "  N , 6 ° 37' 57"  E
Location Kerpen district of Blatzheim
Waters Neffelbach
Built 1825
Shut down after 1970
technology
use Oil mill
Grinder two grinds
drive water wheel
water wheel undershot

The Petersmühle was a watermill in the Kerpen district of Blatzheim in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The grinding mill was powered by the water of the Neffelbach .

The Dueren Gottfried Loos Built in 1825, the oil mill, but as from 1827 flour mill was used. In 1831 the miller Gottfried Loß zu Blatzheim intended to build a second mill for peeling barley . In 1837 an Abraham Kayser was named as the owner. Wilhelm Josef Peters, the miller at the time, was named as the owner in 1883. He gave the water mill its name.

The mill had two grindings with an undershot water wheel . In 1970 the mill was still operated in a modern grinding operation.

The street name Peters Mühle still reminds of the location of the mill .

literature

  • Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 , p. 326