Powder mill (Waischenfeld)

Powder mill community Waischenfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 6 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 39 ″  E
Pulvermühle in February 2002, International Youth Chess Meeting of the German Chess Youth.

Powder Mill is the name of a right on the river Wiesent located wasteland and the associated building in the area of Upper Franconian town Waischenfeld .

building

Originally, black powder was made in a powder mill. After a refusal by the operators to supply the troops of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte with black powder, these troops caused an explosion in 1806, after which the building was no longer used until 1875.

In 1875, after the reconstruction, Lorenz Schatz opened a bottled beer business. After a daughter married Johann Bezold, the property was continued as an inn by the Bezold family. After the Second World War, they steadily expanded the building; a hall was built in 1950 and the overnight accommodation capacity expanded. In 1967, the powder mill hosted Group 47 at their last regular meeting.

In May 1972 a fire broke out that seriously damaged the 40-person hotel; there were no injuries. The hall building then had to be demolished again. The old inn was also torn down by the owners for financial reasons and a new building was erected in its place.

After the reopening, the powder mill was awarded the Bavarian State Prize in 1977 .

From 1968 chess players used the powder mill as a hostel. Former world champion Bobby Fischer hid there for three months from October 1990. The chess grandmaster Michael Bezold , who grew up in the wilderness, organized an annual chess tournament there in the 2000s, the Franconian Grandmaster Days . The German Chess Youth used the premises of the powder mill to promote young talent.

In 2012 the powder mill was closed and later sold. Since 2013 it has been run as a hotel by new operators and was closed for renovation until April 2014. Since then, the powder mill has reopened as a guest house with a holiday apartment and restaurant / cafe with beer garden.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through the wasteland .

literature

• Gustav Voit, Brigitte Kaulich, Walter Rüfer: From the countryside in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland - a landscape is discovered . (Series of publications by the Franconian Switzerland Association, Volume 8) Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-7896-0511-5 , pp. 327–339.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2nd International Youth Chess Meeting 2002 in the Pulvermühle on TeleSchach
2. ^ Helmut Pfleger : Chess . Die Zeit , May 24, 2006. Online article from May 23, 2006, accessed on April 18, 2013.
3. ^ Nordbayern.de: Chess domicile "Pulvermühle" closed . February 20, 2012, accessed April 18, 2013
4. ↑ Klaus Steffan / Raymund Stolze : Jubilee tournament in the powder mill / historical . July 13, 2011, accessed April 18, 2013
5. ↑ Klaus Steffan: Franconian grandmaster days in the powder mill . April 22, 2004, accessed April 18, 2013