Schweickhardt'sche Kunstmühle
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The Schweickhardt'sche Kunstmühle , originally called Haagtormühle , was a grain water mill in Tübingen . She stood at the Ammer channel next to the Haagtor, so at the western end of town.
history
The Haagtor mill was built in the Middle Ages and was first mentioned in a document in 1501. It was the largest mill in Tübingen. She was responsible for supplying the townspeople with flour. A miller and a servant worked in the mill . The mill basically worked all year round. If the Ammer Canal, which otherwise operated the mill, froze over in winter, this quickly led to supply bottlenecks.
From the second half of the 17th century the mill was run by the city. From 1820, however, the yield of the municipal mills decreased. The local council then decided to sell it. The Haagtor mill was bought in 1838 together with two other mills by the Schweickhardt brothers, who modernized it into an art mill . The brother who ostensibly took care of the mill was Heinrich Schweickhardt (1798–1855), who had also been city councilor since 1834 and later the last chairman of the Tübinger Volksverein. The other brother Eduard Schweickhardt worked in the civil service and later as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen.
Storm on the Schweickhardt'sche art mill
After the bad harvests of 1846/47, prices also rose sharply in Tübingen. For the craftsmen and Gôgen (vineyard workers), a loaf of bread cost the entire day's earnings. When rumors of the Schweickhardt brothers' speculation began to circulate at the beginning of May 1847, angry residents of the lower town gathered in front of the mill on the evening of May 4, 1847. After they just screamed for a while, they stormed her and forcibly stole some sacks of fruit. They also demolished the inside and mistreated the owners without being able to find much flour. The owners called the city guard beforehand for help. This, which consisted of armed students, who arrived in numbers of about 150 under the leadership of Carl Heinrich Ludwig Hoffmann , quickly ended the uprising that was later called the Tübingen Bread Riot . The leaders of the storm were sentenced to several months in prison. The accusation of speculation was subsequently found to be unjustified.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Marcon, Heinrich Strecker and Günter Randecker: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: Life and work of the professors: the economics faculty of the University of Tübingen and its predecessors (1817-2002). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, p. 208
swell
- Information in the permanent exhibition of the Tübingen City Museum
- Ulrich Köpf : Historical-critical view of history: Ferdinand Christian Baur and his students: 8th Blaubeurer Symposion. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994, p. 97.
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '14.3 " N , 9 ° 2' 58.3" E