sawmill
A sawmill , also known as a cutting mill, is a sawmill that is powered by water or wind power. The saw was and is often a gang saw , especially when it is water- powered . With one exception in Hierapolis ( Asia Minor ), their forerunners came into operation without water power at the turn of the times in the Roman Empire .
history
The first water-powered sawmill in Europe is documented for the year 1204 in Évreux . In the Swiss Jura ine such a sawmill was first described in the 1267th The Urtelmühle in Lenggries, mentioned in 1295, is considered the first sawmill in Germany . After that, this technique spread quickly:
- 1298 in Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1310 in Kirchheim unter Teck
- 1311 Pfaffenweiler
- 1313 in Selbach near Gaggenau
- 1314 in Peterzell near Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest
- 1322 in Augsburg
Wherever there was a lack of water power, wind power was used here and there to operate a saw. For example, the Domjüchmühle near Neustrelitz reports that the shaft that otherwise drives the grain mill had to be laboriously turned over for sawing . The miller then set up a small post mill as a sawmill around 1780. In 1791 a separate water-powered sawmill came into operation in connection with an improvement in the Mühlkanal .
Derived place names
- Sawmill (Harztor) , hamlet in the Harztor rural community, Nordhausen district, Thuringia
- Odertal sawmill , district of the town of Braunlage, Goslar district, Lower Saxony
- Schneidemühl , leading German name from Piła in the north of the Greater Poland Voivodeship . The Polish place name means 'saw'.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniesz: Watermills in the catchment area of the Havel between Neustrelitz and Feldberg in New Contributions to Natural Space and Landscape History in the Serrahn Subarea of the Müritz National Park (PDF) , p. 63 ff.
