Powder mills from Gut Schiff
The powder mills of good ship were both in the district Herrenstrunden and in the neighborhood Sand of Bergisch Gladbach on the Strunde . There were four powder mills in total, two to the east and two to the west of Gut Schiff . There were three powder magazines on the western mountainside. A drying house stood between the two western mills. Mills I, II and III (from east to west) were in the Herrenstrunden district. The mill IV was in the district of sand.
history
The Cologne merchant and powder manufacturer Wilhelm Josef Wecus bought the Schiff estate and the associated oil mill in 1761 . He intended to convert the oil mill into a powder mill and at the beginning of 1762 applied for the corresponding concession from the state government. Neighbors appealed against this because of the risk of an unexpected accident and the mill breaking up . He then withdrew his application and stated that he wanted to build a new mill closer to Gut Schiff. On September 25, 1762, he received the concession to build a powder mill on the Strunderbach about 100 m west of Gut Schiff (mill No. III). To do this, he had to build a long Umbach, because the mill was now not directly on the Strunde, but on the slope. This also gave him the opportunity a few years later, about 400 m downhill, to build another powder mill, the so-called dust mill (mill No. IV). In 1803 and 1842 the first powder mill No. III exploded. The building, newly built in 1842, remained in place until it was closed in 1910.
Around 1850, Theodor Eyberg acquired Gut Schiff with the powder mills. He began with a comprehensive reorganization of the company. Initially, the Strunde was moved away from the mountain in order to create sufficient building space for the manor house with its characteristic half-timbered structure that still exists today. In 1855 Eyberg received the concession for a third and in 1858 for a fourth powder mill. The uppermost mill was located about 300 meters east of Gut Schiff and - like the three other mills - was driven by the water of the Umbach. In 1873 the Schiffer powder mills were first incorporated into the United Rheinisch-Westphälische Pulver-Fabriken AG (based in Cologne). This went into the United Cologne-Rottweiler Pulverfabriken AG in 1890 . In 1910, the powder production in Schiff was stopped. The production facilities were torn down for safety reasons.
Ground monument
There are still some relics of mill IV, the so-called dust mill. The foundation walls made of quarry stone, the protective wall and the trench of the inlet, which is almost completely filled with earth and covered with trees, are located close to the bridge that leads at the edge of the forest below Gut Schiff over the Strunde to the hiking path between the stream and the mountainside. This area was entered on July 10, 1995 under No. 12 in the list of archaeological monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .
See also
literature
- Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
- Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach, 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
- Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 53ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
- ↑ Anton Jux: The Johanniter-Kommende Herrenstrunden and parish history. Bergisch Gladbach 1956, p. 182 ff.
- ↑ Bergische Landeszeitung: The local history on the trail
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 19 ″ E