Porselener mill

Porselener mill
The Porselener mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 2 '47 "  N , 6 ° 10' 31"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '47 "  N , 6 ° 10' 31"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	worm
Built	1799
Shut down	1965
technology
use	Oil, fulling, paper and grinding mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	up to 3 water wheels
water wheel	undershot

The Porselener Mühle was a double watermill with an undershot water wheel on the Wurm in the town of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Porselener mill had its location on the right and left side of the worm in Bleckden, in the district Porselen , in the town of Heinsberg. The plot of land on which the mill buildings stand is approx. 44 m above sea ​​level . Above stood the Randerather oil mill and the Bommers mill , below the oil and paper mill in Oberbruch .

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level. The confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the town of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worm straightening was carried out. The curving, now and then meandering course of the river disappeared in favor of a simple route . The river length shortened and the flow speed increased. For many people the flood protection improved , for the mills it was the end. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

With the French occupation in 1800 moved to the native climes also a certain freedom of trade one. This had the consequence for the mill system that several mills were rebuilt around this time. This resulted in four successive worm mills over a distance of less than 10 km. These were the Porselener Mühle, Oberbruch oil and paper mill, Unterbrucher Mühle and the Lohmühle .

The Porselener Mühle in Bleckden was built in 1799 by the Lowis family as a double mill. It consisted of two buildings between which the worm flowed. On the right side of the worm an oil and grain mill with two undershot water wheels was built. The building on the left was built as a fulling and paper mill with a covered water wheel. In 1821 the paper mill was taken over by the Bracheler Berens paper mill, but later converted into a turnery . The mill on the right was changed by the abandonment of the oil fight , which was no longer profitable. The mill continued to operate as a grain mill until the worm regulation was introduced in the mid-1960s. The mill jam was dismantled and the turnery was relocated.

Monument entry

Porselener Mühle : Former watermill. Entry in the list of monuments on January 19, 1984

• List of monuments Heinsberg No. 51

gallery

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  Residential and mill building of the Porselener Mühle

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  Farm building of the Porselener Mühle

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  Resting millstone of the Porselener mill

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  The worm between the two mill buildings

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  The mill wheel of the Porselener Mühle

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  Wall vault opening for the wheel axle of the mill wheel

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  Worm inflow to the Porselener mill

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  The Porselener Mühle on the first recording from 1846

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  The Porselener Mühle on the new record from 1892

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  The Porselener Mühle on the tranchot card 1805/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 294-295.

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Porselener Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg
• Monument Porselener Mühle

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.wver.de/