Back mill
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 54 '38 " N , 8 ° 39' 45" E | |
| Location | Darmstadt-Arheilgen | |
| Waters | Ruthsenbach | |
| Built | 1318 | |
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| drive | Watermill | |
The back mill is a listed watermill in Darmstadt-Arheilgen in Hesse , the history of which goes back to the early 14th century.
History and description
The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1318. In the Thirty Years War it was destroyed, rebuilt in 1672 and changed architecturally in later times. The building ensemble consists of a horseshoe-shaped complex with main and auxiliary buildings. In addition, the Mühlgraben and the mill entrance paved with blue basalt belong to the totality . Today's main building of the ensemble was built from clinker bricks around 1900 . The intact grinding process has been preserved.
Monument protection
The grain mill was originally called Krugsmühle and was later called Schornhauersmühle . After that the mill was called Riggenmühle , which became a back mill . The back mill is next to the Leibchesmühle on the Silz one of two still preserved mills in Darmstadt-Arheilgen of former eight. For architectural, industrial and urban history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 612.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Sauerwein: The story of Arheilgens , Gebüdruck OHG, Darmstadt-Arheilgen, 1962, pp. 30 and 82f.