City mill (Heinsberg)

City mill (Heinsberg)
Heinsberg on the tranchot card 1806/1807
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 3 '40 "  N , 6 ° 5' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '40 "  N , 6 ° 5' 35"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	Worm , boy worm, mill channel
Built	around 1307
Shut down	1905
technology
use	Oil and grinder mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	2 water wheels
water wheel	undershot

The city mill was a watermill on the Junge Wurm in the town of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The city had its mill site on the boys worm , the mill canal, on the high street in the town of Heinsberg. The land on which the mill building stood was approx. 40 m above sea ​​level . The Dahlmühle was located above the town mill .

Waters

The Junge Wurm was a body of water that ran more or less parallel to the Wurm . The junction from the Wurm was in Nirm, a district of the city of Geilenkirchen . Here the worm has a height of 54 m above sea level. The river Junge Wurm, also known as the Kleine Wurm , flowed in a north-northwest direction via Randerath , Horst , Porselen , Dremmen , Grebben , Heinsberg, Kempen and Karken across the German-Dutch border towards Vlodrop and empties at an altitude of 29 m above sea level on Dutch territory into the Rur . It was a natural body of water in which humans had a hand in many places. The Junge Wurm was connected to the Heinsberg moat , the mill canal, the Liecker brook and the mill brook . This composite body of water served for surface drainage and the benefit of the people. For centuries there were around 15 water mills on the Junge Wurm, with a slope of 26 m between Randerath and Karken. With the worm straightening in the 1960s and 1970s, the young worm disappeared from the maps . Instead, drainage channels and trenches were created. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

While in many cities the mills were outside the city ​​walls , in the city of Heinsberg there was not only the external mill Dahlmühle but also a mill within the city walls, which was built around 1300 by the landlord . It lay on the Junge Wurm, the mill canal that flowed through Heinsberg. The mill was first mentioned in a document in 1307 when Gottfried II , Herr von Heinsberg , gave the mill to the miller Gottfried on a long lease for 100 Malter rye annually . In 1542 the mill got a second water wheel . In 1711 the mill with the neighboring buildings burned down, but was immediately rebuilt. In 1808 the town mill was sold as a confiscated feudal property by France together with the Dahlmühle to private hands. The mill building was destroyed in 1944 during World War II.

gallery

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  Heinsberg on the first recording from 1843

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  Heinsberg on the new recording from 1893

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 305-306.
• Heinrich Tischelbäcker: The Heinsberger Mühlenkanal home calendar of the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1962, page 128-134, 1963, page 142-144.
• Hubert Berens: Die Stadtmühle zu Heinsberg home calendar of the district of Heinsberg 1986, page 22-29

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Stadtmühle (Heinsberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/