Reitbrooker Mill
The riding Brooker mill is built in 1870 a windmill . It is located in the Reitbrook district of Hamburg in the marshland on the banks of the Dove Elbe , at 11 Vorderdeich .
The mill is located directly on the Reitbrooker mill bridge , which connects the place with Allermöhe north of the Dove Elbe .
Before the bridge was built, there had been a ferry here for centuries. As early as 1773, the owner of the ferry yard , located directly next to today's windmill, received permission to build a wind-powered gristmill on this site. The original building burned down in 1870 and was then replaced by today's windmill.
It is a so-called “ Galerieholländer ” with a two-storey square substructure made of brick and an octagonal wooden structure. The hood, i.e. the uppermost part of the mill to which the blades are attached, can be rotated according to the direction of the wind. The mill wings have a length of 12.50 m. In the 20th century the mill received electrical installations; the last wind-powered grinding took place in 1938/39. In 1942 the building was placed under monument protection.
The Reitbrooker mill is one of nine preserved windmills in the Hamburg area and the only one that still has its original blades. Overall, it is in a good state of preservation and is considered the symbol of Reitbrook.
Nowadays the mill is used by a trading company for animal feed and horticultural supplies, which also grinds grain products (electrically) in it.
literature
- Cultural Authority Hamburg, Monument Protection Office (ed.), Feuss, Axel: Water, wind and industrial mills in Hamburg (= Hamburg inventory, topic series Bd. 9), Heide 2007. ISBN 978-3-8042-1234-3 ) , Pp. 101-103
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 19.2 ″ E