Red Mill (Freital)

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Rear view of the Red Mill (1927)

The Red Mill was a mill from the 16th century that existed in the Döhlen district of Freital until 1937 .

location

The red mill was located at the intersection between today's Dresdner Strasse and the Platz des Friedens in the suburb of Neudöhlen . At last it was surrounded by a green area that stretched from Dresdner Strasse to the banks of the Weißeritz and even further towards Deuben . The chemical factory of Gottfried Reichard , the husband of the balloonist Wilhelmine Reichard, was located on this area, also known as the “Platz der Jugend” .

Rote Mühle and the chemical factory were supplied with water from the Weißeritz from a mill ditch . This branched off a little south of the location of today's pedestrian bridge to the Bodelschwingh nursing home and ran through the entire green area. At the Winkelmühle (today Reichardstrasse) the ditch had its outlet back into the river.

history

The red mill was first mentioned in 1596 in Döhlen church records. Presumably it was the last structure that was left of the desert town of Weitzschen . Erasmus Lorentz was mentioned as miller in 1626, and in 1644 the Rote Mühle was owned by Jeremias Knörr. At that time, the miller was liable to pay both to the Dippoldiswalde office and the Döhlen community. Knörr complained about this excessive financial burden. On the other side of today's Dresdner Strasse, the "Rot (h) e Schänke" opened in 1763.

In 1773 the owner of the manors Döhlen and Zauckerode , Alexander Christoph von Schönberg (1729–1801), acquired the Rote Mühle. The magnificent design of some of the rooms on the upper floor, which were paneled with wood and decorated with ornaments, originated from this time. These rooms were used as guest rooms by the people of Döhlen. Schönberg also had a new grinder installed, which was still there when the mill was demolished in 1937.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the area developed more and more into an industrial and urban area. The Döhlen glass factory was founded at the beginning of the 19th century , and its industrial buildings filled the entire street opposite the Rote Mühle. In 1912, the Rote Schänke was demolished and the representative "Döhlener Hof", today's city culture center, was built. Only the Rote Mühle was preserved with the surrounding meadows up to the Weißeritz bank. This area was briefly used by allotment gardeners after 1900, and the Potschappler shooting club considered using it as a shooting range. In 1937, however, the city implemented the plans for residential development on the area that had been pursued since 1900. In the autumn of 1937 the demolition of the mill began and the mill ditch was filled. At the end of 1938, the construction of 117 new apartments had already been completed. The houses that were built during these years are still standing today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Fiedler: Rote Mühle - born in the 16th century . In: Sächsische Zeitung , February 21, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Eberhard Gürtler: Barrages - Mühlgräben Contemporary witnesses long past , Freital 2006, p. 39 ff. ( Digital version (PDF file; 17.1 MB))
  3. ↑ Juliane Puls: Freital. Based on coal and steel. Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-659-7 , p. 15 ff.
  4. ↑ Heinz Fiedler: Around the Red Mill . In: Sächsische Zeitung, January 28, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 23.2 "  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 27.6"  E