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Schlossmühle Wissen in Weeze

Schlossmühle Wissen in Weeze

Location and history
Schlossmühle Wissen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Castle mill knowledge
Coordinates 51 ° 36 '54 "  N , 6 ° 13' 19"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '54 "  N , 6 ° 13' 19"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Kleve district
Weeze municipality
Waters Niers
Built before 1437
Shut down 1958
technology
use Grain mill
Grinder 2 grinding courses
drive Watermill
water wheel 2 water wheels undershot

The Schlossmühle Wissen was a watermill located on the Niers (Schlossgraben Schloss Wissen) in the municipality of Weeze with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Schlossmühle Wissen is located on the Schlossallee of Schloss Wissen , on the Niers, in the municipality of Weeze, Kleve district , in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Niers has a height of approx. 19 m above sea ​​level here . The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Niersverband , which is based in Viersen .

history

Wissen Castle was first mentioned in 1316. Haus und Gut Wissen appear as the property of the Gocher bailiff Heinrich von der Straten in 1372 , when Count Adolf von Kleve issued a letter of protection for the parish of Weeze and the Haus zu Wissen. The first mill was mentioned in a document in 1437, when Johann von der Straten , son of Heinrich von der Straten , was given the mill as a fief by the wealthy Viktorstift in Xanten . In 1461 the von der Straten family sold the entire property to the von Loe family , who still own it today.

After 1437 a real mill economy developed next to the castle. So four mills were built directly on the Niers or on the moats (also known as graves ) of the castle. In addition to the Schlossmühle Wissen, the Ölmühle Wissen , the sawmill Wissen and the Fulling Mill Wissen . The water supply for the moat systems is regulated by a weir above the castle on the Niers.

The Schlossmühle Wissen was documented in 1437 and was powered by 2 water wheels as a flour mill . It served as a forced mill for the glory of Wissen Castle and was also called Wissensche Mühle. A coat of arms stone over the entrance to the mill attests to the year 1545. In addition to the coat of arms, there are also the people of Frans van Loe ( Drost von Goch , Wissen and Holt) and Sophia van Nesselrat si huisfrow . chiseled in. The river regulation of the Niers in the 1930s brought about rapid rotting of the mill subsoil with the lowering of the water level . The pile -based mill was closed in 1958 and later listed as a historical monument . In 2005 extensive renovation work was carried out on the mill. Today the monument building is used for events and conferences.

Monument entry

gallery

  • Schlossmühle Knowledge as a monument

  • Wappenstein above the mill entrance

  • Water supply to the mill

  • Weir on the Niers

  • Schlossmühle Wissen on the new recording in 1892

  • Schlossmühle Wissen on the original cadastral map 1843

  • Schlossmühle Wissen on the tranchot card 1802/04

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 . Pp. 559-561
  • Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 . Pp. 183-184

Web links

Commons : Schlossmühle Wissen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.niersverband.de/