Schnockesmühle

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Schnockesmühle

Weir at the former Schnockesmühle

Weir at the former Schnockesmühle

Location and history
Schnockesmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Schnockesmühle
Coordinates 51 ° 14 '28 "  N , 6 ° 23' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '28 "  N , 6 ° 23' 44"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
District of Viersen
City of Viersen
Waters Hammer Bach
Built First mentioned in 1246
Shut down Destruction in World War II
technology
use Grain mill
Grinder 1 grind
drive Watermill
water wheel undershot

The Schnockesmühle in the town of Viersen was a water mill with an undershot water wheel .

Mills in Viersen

In the past centuries there were a total of 18 mills in the municipality of Viersen. Four of them were used as hammer mills . These were operated by horse power. There were also two windmills , the Hoser and Hüsterfeld windmills , both of which were privately owned.

It was different with the watermills. The pen St. Gereon in Cologne had the basic rule of Viersen and the water rights on the streams in Viersen. The construction of watermills required his approval. The monastery granted mill rights as a hereditary fiefdom and received an annual tenancy from them. This had to be delivered to the parish office of St. Remigius. These documents show that there were twelve water mills in Viersen as early as 1246. All mills, with the exception of the monastery mill , paid a sum (about one hundredweight) of malt annually as loan interest. In the glory of Viersen there was no pressure to mill . All farmers could have milled wherever they wanted.

These twelve mills were on:

geography

The Schnockesmühle was located on Hammer Bach , on Weiherstrasse in the Oberbeberich district in the town of Viersen in the Viersen district. There was a pond in front of the mill . The water level of the Hammer Bach in this area was 48 m above sea level. Below the Schnockesmühle was the Sgoedenmühle, above the Plinzenmühle.

The Hammer Bach supplied six mills with water for centuries. The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the water and soil association of the Middle Niers, which is based in Grefrath .

history

It was actually called "Mill in Verendich - Mill on the Wehrdeich". It belonged to the gentlemen of Tüschenbroich . For the knight Gerit v. The pastor of St. Remigius had Tüschenbroich and his family to pray and read mass every Friday. For this he received seven Malter rye from the mill every year. This rye delivery was only canceled after the secularization . The Schnockesmühle stood where the gym is today. It was a grain mill with a grinder and an overshot water wheel. In 1809 the daily grindability of the mill was three Malter grain (one Malter = three hundredweight). The residential building of the mill was destroyed by bombs during World War II. That also meant the end of the mill. The existing mill pond was retained in its size. The place where the draining water from the mill pond drove the mill wheel is now the weir .

gallery

  • Former mill pond

  • The Hammer Bach in the area of ​​the Schnockesmühle

  • Tranchot map from 1806

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 511-523.
  • Ferdinand Dohr: About the water being in the old Viersen. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld , 25th episode / 1974, pp. 47–55.

Web links

Commons : Schnockesmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the water and soil association of the Middle Niers.