Roland Mill
Rolandsmühle is a residential area of the local community Rheinbreitbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .
It is located on the Rhine south of the Lohfeld directly on the border with the city of Bad Honnef . The residential area, which has around five houses, is accessed through Heerstraße, which runs largely parallel to the Rhine . The Grenzbach Honnefer Graben runs directly to the west and flows into the Rhine here. The Uhlhof borders to the north, and numerous allotment gardens extend to the south . The Rolandsmühle residential area is the only permanently inhabited area of Rheinbreitbach on the Rhine, along with the Mühlenweg settlement to the south .
The residential area is named after the watermill of the same name , which is believed to have originated in the 16th to 17th centuries. It was operated by the water of the Breitbach , which ran about 500 m to the south and was led there via a ditch. It was originally called Lohfeldsmühle and was marked as a grinding mill in 1819 and 1845 . In 1872 it was converted into an oil mill , and in 1886 into a paint mill . The owners at that time came from the Rolandseck on the other side of the Rhine and gave it its current name. They converted the mill into a chemical plant in which a melting furnace was operated to produce chlorine barium . For reasons of competition, the Rolandsmühle, known as Barytwerk in 1893, was closed and has been used as a residential building ever since.
literature
- Jürgen Fuchs: Former mills and water wheels in Rheinbreitbach , 2005/2006 or in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 2007 , pp. 127-134.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 25 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 57 ″ E