Stiftsmühle (Aurich)

Stiftsmühle
Aurich Abbey Mill
Location and history
Coordinates	53 ° 28 ′ 5 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 17"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 5 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 17"  E
Location	Germany  Lower Saxony Aurich
Built	1858
Status	functional technical monument
technology
use	Flour mill
drive	Windmill
Windmill type	Gallery Dutch windmill
Wing type	Louvre flaps
Number of wings	4th
Tracking	Compass rose
Website	Stiftsmühle

The Stiftsmühle is a listed five-story Dutch windmill with a compass rose and louvre flaps in Aurich in Lower Saxony . The structure was erected in 1858. It is one of the city's landmarks and with a total height of 29.95  m, it is the second highest mill in East Frisia after the windmill in Hage. It is still operational today. It takes its name from the set pen that the mill acquired in 1932.

investment

The Stiftsmühle is one of five former Aurich town mills. It has a total height of 29.95 meters, five floors and was built from around 200,000 bricks. Today's four louvre blades have a blade diameter of around 24 meters, the axle head is 28.6 meters high. The functioning gallery Dutch windmill in the west of the East Frisian city ​​now serves as a mill museum.

history

In 1731 the East Frisian Prince Georg Albrecht granted the concession to grind grain at the current location outside the city limits at the time, in exchange for a wind hay hayman of 50 guilders . The building erected at the present location of the Stiftsmühle was a Dutchman.

The miller Hermann H. Knoop bought this building in 1855. In the meantime, however, the town had grown closer to the mill. In addition, trees took the wind away from her, so that the new owner had the structure torn down in order to then build today's much larger mill. Due to the size of the building, later further developed grinding techniques, such as a motor-driven roller mill system, with which larger quantities of flour could be produced, could be incorporated. Even so, the mill did not work economically. After the company was totally in debt, the Knoop family ceased operations around 1930.

Two years later, the Sethestift - hence the name Stiftsmühle - bought the building, which was threatened with demolition, and leased it to the Freimuth brothers, who kept the mill in operation until 1968. Subsequently, the Aurich Heimatverein leased the gallery Dutch and completely renovated it. The association renewed the wing, wind rose, gallery and riding roof. In 1977 the association finally opened the mill museum.

museum

The mill technology is still available and functional, so that two fine flour courses, grist courses and roller mills can be seen. The exhibition, opened in 1977, shows the development and importance of windmills in East Frisia on the five floors of the mill. The path from grain to bread is described using original exhibits, models and display boards. There is also an East Frisian bakery with a peat-heated stone oven on the mill grounds. Another thematic focus is the drainage of the lowlands of East Friesland using wind-powered water mills. The show “The Mills and the Millers” has also been on view since 1997.

See also

• List of windmills in East Frisia

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Aurich.de: Mühlenfachmuseum Stiftsmühle ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2012 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. , accessed January 30, 2013. 
2. ↑ Niedersächsische Mühlenstraße: Stiftsmühle Aurich , viewed on January 30, 2013
3. ^ Aurich - Mühlenfachmuseum Stiftsmühle . Ostfriesland Tourismus GmbH. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
4. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . German Foundation for Monument Protection - Monuments Publications, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 210 .
5. ↑ Ostfriesland-Info.de: Stiftmühle Aurich , accessed on January 30, 2013.