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Square mill

Platzmühle in Gangelt-Stahe

Platzmühle in Gangelt-Stahe

Location and history
Platzmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Square mill
Coordinates 50 ° 59 '10 "  N , 6 ° 1' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '10 "  N , 6 ° 1' 43"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
District of Heinsberg
Gangelt- Stahe
Waters Rodebach
Built around 1472
Shut down 1926 cessation of grinding operations
technology
use Oil, wage and grain mill
Grinder 4 tampers 1 grind
drive Watermill
water wheel undershot

The Place Mill is a former on Rodebach preferred water mill with an undershot waterwheel in Gangelt -Stahe, a rural community in North Rhine-Westphalia Heinsberg district .

geography

The Platzmühle is located at Zur Platzmühle 22, in the Stahe district in the Gangelt community. The area on which the courtyard and mill building stands is approx. 59 m above sea ​​level . The mill on the right side of the stream on the upper reaches is the second of fourteen mills. Above was the Engelsmühle , below is the Mohrenmühle .

Waters

The Rodebach supplied fourteen mills with water until the 20th century. The stream begins at a retention basin near Siepenbusch in the town of Übach-Palenberg at an altitude of 105 m above sea level. The Rodebach has a length of 28.9 km to its confluence with the Geleenbeek near Oud-Roosteren in the Netherlands . The mouth height is 29 m above sea level. The care and maintenance of the Rodebach and its tributaries is subject to the respective neighboring cities and communities.

history

The square mill is referred to in the Gangelter Stadtbuch in 1472 as a Schlagmühle and in 1723 in a legal dispute as a Schlagoligsmühle. These old names indicate that this was an oil mill . According to information provided by the current owners, the mill burned down in 1809. In the 19th century, presumably when the mill was rebuilt, its use was changed. It worked as a tan mill with four pounders and one grinding gear that was used alternately. In 1926 the milling operation was stopped. Reasons were for a decline in water levels and secondly, the amelioration of Staher fracture.

gallery

  • Courtyard and farm buildings

  • Stoneware from old mill times

  • Tranchot card 1804/05

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 240–241.
  • State survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia topographic map 1:50 000 L 5102 Geilenkirchen and L 5000 Selfkant, ISBN 3-89439-417-X

Web links

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