Castle mill Liebenthann
The castle mill Liebenthann is located between Obergünzburg and Ronsberg in the Ostallgäu district in Bavaria.
location
The Liebenthann castle mill of the lost Liebenthann castle is located at an altitude of 713 meters above sea level on the eastern Günz in the Burg district of the municipality of Obergünzburg.
History and description
In 1655, the prince abbot in the prince monastery of Kempten Roman Giel von Gielsberg ordered a saw to be erected below Liebenthann Castle. In 1669 Hans Lieb leased it from the Kempten Abbey with the condition to build a grinding mill and built the same in 1686. In 1698 a half-timbered house was added in the late Renaissance style. In the years 1745–1750 the mill was fundamentally rebuilt and received its baroque version that is still visible today . The previously gable-side entrance door became a window. For this purpose, two doors were installed on the eaves side, one opening up the mill, the other the living area. The residential part was given a representative floor plan with a baroque T-hall on the upper floor.
After the Kempten monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1803, the new owner Max Joseph in Bavaria sold the mill to the previous tenant Johann Georg Rudhart. It thus became private property. The water right, the fish right and the right to two drinking water sources in the Liebenthanner forest were also sold. Extensive agricultural areas and a stable building also belonged to the mill.
In 1832 the mill complex was expanded to include a remise . In 1864 the remise was given today's roof structure. During this time, a Biedermeier style room was designed on the upper floor of the mill .
Milling was stopped in 1916. In 1920 a cooperative was founded, which installed a turbine and a direct current generator instead of the grinding mills. The surrounding farms were supplied with electricity until 1964. After a fatal occupational accident involving the miller Eduard Wiedemann, the sawmill and agriculture were stopped in 1974. The property had been uninhabited since 1988 and fell into disrepair. In winter 1988 the stable building collapsed under a snow load.
The mill, which was in danger of collapsing, was fundamentally renovated by Steffen and Brigitte Haid in 2006–2009 and converted into an open monument. They restored the property, equipped it with modern technology and converted the mill for residential purposes. In April 2011, the project was awarded the Swabian District Monument Prize.
The mill now offers living space for the miller and two loft-style apartments . The turbine was upgraded. Since 2007, electricity has been produced using hydropower again. An excursion restaurant was set up in the coach house. In the tavern you can see a baroque insert ceiling from 1745, which comes from Liebenthann Castle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Castle Mill - Castle Mill Liebenthann
- ^ Karlheinz Weinzierl: Report on the examination of the findings of the mill in Liebenthann . Bellenberg April 29, 2005.
- ↑ Claudia Chauvin: How to Wake Up a Mill . Ed .: Heimatbund Allgäu eV 22nd year, no. 6 . Hephaistos, Immenstadt-Werdenstein June 2007, p. 28-31 .
- ↑ Richard Mayr: And then something completely different . In: Georg Fürst von Waldburg zu Zeil and Tauchburg, Ellinor Holland, Günter Holland (ed.): Allgäuer Zeitung . Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag GmbH, Marktoberdorf June 19, 2012, p. 3 .
- ↑ Preserving historical gems for the future . In: Heimatbund Allgäu eV (Hrsg.): Heimat Allgäu . 26th year, no. 1/2011 . Hephaistos, Kempten January 1, 2011, p. 18-21 .
- ↑ Susanne Drießle: Stories are the miller's pleasure . In: Land & Berge . tape 2014 , no. 3 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 18 ″ E