Stone mill

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Stone mill

Bronze plaque of the stone mill

Bronze plaque of the stone mill

Location and history
Steinsmühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Stone mill
Coordinates 51 ° 9 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 6 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 6 ″  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Niers
Built 1158 mention of a donation
Shut down 1969 Destruction after a bomb attack
technology
use Oil mill , fruit mill and tan mill
Grinder 1 grind , 1 oil press
drive water wheel
water wheel undershot

The stone mill was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Odenkirchen in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The stone mill was located on the left side of the Niers, on Steinsstrasse, in the Mönchengladbach district of Odenkirchen. Above was the Odenkirchen paper mill , below the Eickesmühle . The area on which the mill building stood is at a height of approx. 56 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km 2 up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The stone mill derives its name from the mill on the stone , an old tower or a fort, which is associated with a lost Carolingian estate of Geisfurt. It is probably the mill that came to St. Georg Abbey in Cologne in 1158 . In 1560 the mill is operated as an oil mill , in 1764 it was bought as an oil and fulling mill by Messrs Greeven and Weidenfeld in order to use it as a paper mill . The Electoral Court Chamber in Bonn granted the concession for six Riz papers per year (one ream = 480 sheets of 20 × 24 paper). It is not known whether the renovation took place. In 1833 the mill was operated as an oil, fruit and tan mill. The owner Heinz Strasser and eight of his employees were killed in a direct bombing in 1944 . The mill was rebuilt, but closed in 1969 due to a lack of profitability . An 800-year history came to an end with the abandonment of the building.

gallery

  • The Odenkirchener mills on the Niers

  • The stone mill on the map is a new addition from 1912

  • The stone mill on the original cadastral map from 1846

  • The stone mill as Stein Mühl on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 489-490.
  • Robert Lünendonk: Die Niers and their mills 1st edition November 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pages 50-51, 98-99.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lanuv.nrw.de
  4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/