Rheydt Castle Mill

Rheydt Castle Mill
Building of the Rheydt Castle Mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 10 ′ 56 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 45"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 56 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 45"  E
Location	Germany  North Rhine-Westphalia City of Mönchengladbach Rheydt
Waters	Niers
Built	1256 deed of foundation
Shut down	1920
technology
use	Oil mill , flour mill , fulling mill and paper mill
Grinder	2 grinding courses , 1 oil press
drive	water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Rheydt Castle Mill was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Rheydt Castle Mill is located on the left side of the Niers, on Schlossstrasse in the Rheydt district of Mönchengladbach. Above was the Zoppenbroich mill , below the Klippertz mill . The area on which the mill building stands is approx. 51 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km ² up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Rheydt Castle Mill was first mentioned in 1256 in a deed of foundation from Gerhard von Heppendorf, Vogt of Cologne . The mill stood on the left bank of the Niers and was originally operated as a flour mill. The undershot Bannmühle was expanded over time in addition to the oil and fulling mill . Around 1590 a paper mill was also operated in the rooms . In 1846, the horses horses bought the mill and ran a flour and wood shop next to the mill . In 1865 the brothers founded a mechanical weaving mill . The looms on which suit and trouser fabrics were woven came from England . The weaving mill developed into an important company. In 1875 the company was enlarged and equipped with a steam engine. The mill operation was stopped in 1920. After the war damage, the weaving mill was put back into operation and was able to survive on the market until the 1980s . In 1998 the buildings bought by the city of Mönchengladbach were converted into apartments and studios and in 2000 they were listed as historical monuments .

gallery

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  Dam at the castle mill

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  Adjacent farm buildings

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  Upstream mill pond

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  Castle and castle mill on the map Newly added from 1912

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  Castle and castle mill on the original cadastral map from 1846

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  Castle mill as Rheydermühl on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

Monument entry

Schloßmühle Rheydt in Geneicken Entry as a memorial on February 18, 2000

The property is located at the northern end of Schlossstrasse, west of the Rheydt moated castle, instead of the watermill mentioned in the late Middle Ages. A two-and-a-half-storey, seven-axis main house in brick under a hipped roof with a three-axis risalit protruding in the middle and subsequently clad triangular gable with an overall simple facade design. Upright rectangular window with arched arch on the ground floor. An arched passage in the southern part of the house gives access to the inner courtyard.

Due to its location on the site of the former castle mill, as a successor to the historic castle mill and document of a functional and structural conversion to a cotton weaving mill that began around the middle of the 19th century, and for architectural reasons as a monument, it is worth protecting.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide , 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 491-493.
• Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills . 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pp. 57-60, 104-106.

Web links

Commons : Schlossmühle Rheydt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fishing on the Niers
• Interesting facts about the Niers
• Rheydt Castle Mill in Geneiken

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/