Schnabelsmühle (Bergisch Gladbach)

Engraving from the Schnabelsmühle in Bergisch Gladbach 1850

The Schnabelsmühle or Quirlsmühle (also "Mühle zum Quirl") was a paper mill on the Strunde . At the same time it was a district in the city center of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

The original whisk mill and later Schnabel mill was the nucleus of the Zanders paper mill . It stood on an umbach of the Strunde near the Paas inn. By opening the canalization, this place was made clear again as the old mill location. The founder of the mill was the Cologne citizen Philipp von Fürth, who obtained Cologne citizenship on August 22, 1571. On June 2, 1582, he acquired the Nabbenseifer Gut with an abandoned grinding mill to turn it into the first paper mill on the Strunde.

The mill Zum Quirl , as it was initially called, had two complete mills with presses, reels, work-pieces and pounding equipment. In 1589 Fürth bought another grinding mill "located under the papirenn Müllen" , which was the basis for the construction of the later Gohrsmühle . Quirls- and Gohrsmühle remained in one family for three generations: the owner was initially Stephan (Steffen) Jacobs until 1611, then his son Jakob until 1619 and his son Stephan until 1652. Since the division of the estate in 1693, the name Fues has repeatedly appeared in the series of later owners . From 1782 at the latest, the new owner of the Quirlsmühle was Heinrich Schnabel. He also became the new namesake for the mill. He was succeeded from 1797 by his grandson Franz Heinrich Fauth . In his time the Schnabelsmühle experienced an apparent economic downturn, which in 1820 the estate bankruptcy led. It took until 1822 to process all legal formalities for settling the estate with the subsequent auction. Johann Wilhelm Zanders , who was related through Fauth's wife Anna Katharina Pütter, acquired the bankruptcy estate and on July 16, 1824, together with Gottfried Fauth, founded the Fauth & Zanders company in Schnabelsmühle. With the death of Gottfried Fauth on February 11, 1829, the company dissolved again. Zanders quickly took over the share from Fauth and founded the J. W. Zanders paper mill on July 28, 1829 . He died just a year later. His widow Julie Zanders leased the Schnabelsmühle to Eduard Knobel and his partner Ferdinand Wachendorff from 1836 to 1848 . The Schnabelsmühle remained in the ownership of the Zanders family until they sold all of their shares in the company to International Paper in November 1989 .

parking spot

At the beginning of the 1980s, the city of Bergisch Gladbach was forced to think about new traffic routes and bypasses within the city center. This ultimately led to the complete abandonment of the Schnabelsmühle. The name has remained for part of the bypass road and an adjacent larger car park.

literature

Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundertal , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
Determination and order for the Strunderbach, printed by Chr.Illinger, Bergisch Gladbach o. J., (it concerns the Bach order and the Bach protocol from 1823 after a copy from 1854)
Frank Schulte: The mills on the Strunde , Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-932326-02-4
Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen, On the traces of the use of water power in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg , Wiehl 1998, p. 246, ISBN 3-931251-36-5

Web links

On the history of paper production on the Strunde von Stiftung Zanders
"The Strunde and its importance for papermaking." Private website by Rolf Otto Wesner

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 94ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9
^ ^A ^b Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , Ed. Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 154, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
↑ Gerhard Geurts : Eduard Knobel - landowner of Lerbach house, its importance for Gladbach in the early phase of industrialization , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, issue 14, editor and publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein- Mountains. V., Bergisch Gladbach 2007, page 27 ff.

50.99065 7.132681Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '26.3 " N , 7 ° 7' 57.7" E

[Brenner-1] A ^b ^c Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, p. 94ff. ISBN 3-932326-67-9

[Schulte-2] A ^b Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , Ed. Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 154, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5

[Geurts-3] Gerhard Geurts : Eduard Knobel - landowner of Lerbach house, its importance for Gladbach in the early phase of industrialization , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, issue 14, editor and publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein- Mountains. V., Bergisch Gladbach 2007, page 27 ff.