Spitalmühle (Steyr)
The Spitalmühle was a mill on the Steyr River at the confluence with the Enns . It was named after the citizen hospital to which it was donated in 1323. Other older names are Hofmühle and Mühle bei dem Spital .
history
According to the Steyr historian Franz Xaver Pritz, there was a mill here as early as 1088. In the land register from around 1313, this mill , which was under the jurisdiction of Steyr Castle , had to deliver four ' sheep ' of wheat, four bread, 60 eggs and two chickens. In 1323 burgrave Otto Scheck left it to the citizens' hospital. The owners were the merchant and city judge Sigmundt Truendt (15th century), from 1518 to 1524 Josef Grünpeck , then until 1542 the merchant, mine owner and city judge Hans Fuchsberger and 1549 Hans Hoffmann. A miller by the name of Balthasar Hopfer must have enlarged the mill and united it with the neighboring house by 1586, as the recorded value increased fourfold (from 200 florins to 800 florins). In 1606, the town and rulers agreed on the mill and the adjoining house of the Georg Kurzenkircher. Both were previously under the rule. The Kurzenkirchner house was now under the control of the city and the mill as a court mill.
Other owners were Baptist Lehner in 1628 and Andre Wagenpfeil in 1642. Johann Maximilian Graf von Lamberg bought the mill from Andreas Wagenpfeil in 1673, but soon left it to his wife Judith Rebecca and her son Kapar Friedrich Graf von Lamberg in 1676. This was followed by the Jexmayer family from around 1750 to 1835, Karl Jocher from 1835 to 1839, Reder from 1839 to 1860 and Mayr from 1860 to 1903. In 1865, the five mills of the mill were merged into one and in 1881 a negotiation took place to take over the costs of repairs to the Spitalmühl weir and the weir of the Heindlmühle across the river . The owner was the timber merchant Emmerich Krenn from Wiener Neustadt from 1903 to 1905, Georg Kröpfl from Wallern near Wels from 1905 to 1906, Gustav Adolf Preusser from 1906 to 1918, Albert Katz from 1918 to 1926 and Wiesner from 1926 to 1929. With Hans Wiesner, the operation as a mill ended in 1929. From 1930 Anton and Maria Frisch ran a butcher's shop in the house . On February 23, 1944, the buildings were badly damaged in a bomb attack. The last owner of the ruin from 1948 on was Strutzenberger. In 1953 the community financed the repair of the Spitalmühl weir and in 1955 the water law expired.
Location and architecture
The complex called Spitalmühle consisted of three structures in the 19th and 20th centuries: a four-story residential building, the two-story mill building and the three-story Lohstampf . Today there is a staircase leading to the local quay and a garden on the square of the house. The mill building and the Lohstampf were located approximately at the upper exit of the fish pass built in 2015. Today the Spitalmühl weir at the mouth of the Steyr still reminds of the missing mill. In its current form and location, this goes back to a redesign in the 1960s. The old Spitalmühlwehr branched off from the Heindlmühlwehr behind the Steyrbrücke.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans Stögmüller: History of the mills in Steyr , section: Hof- oder Spitalmühle in: Jahrbuch des Stadtarchivs Steyr 2009, pp. 10-15 ISBN 978-3-902427-57-1
- ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Steyr, September 2015 p. 7 ( online )
- ↑ Hans Stögmüller: History of the mills in Steyr , section: The mill between the bridges (Heindlmühle) in: Jahrbuch des Stadtarchivs Steyr 2009, pp. 16-22 ISBN 978-3-902427-57-1
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '34.1 " N , 14 ° 25' 17.2" E