Strobel mill
The Strobel mill in the Pockau district of the Saxon town of Pockau-Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains is a Christian youth meeting center and leisure home of the Christian Association of Young People (YMCA). The former industrial building was once used for paper processing and was once Saxony's most profitable hydropower plant .
history
Wood grinding
The mill was built between 1900 and 1906 by the entrepreneur Wilhelm Max Strobel as a so-called wood grinding shop in an elaborate industrial architecture with a tower to produce pulp for paper production .
In 1918 the company CG Schönherr from Floßmühle took over the business. From 1952, the Grünhainichen paper mill owned the facilities, which they shut down in 1954. The property was then handed over to the Pockau community. In 1956 it was passed on to the Marienberg District Council .
Technology history
The machines were supplied with electrical energy by means of a turbine in the factory building, which was fed with water from the Schwarzen Pockau through an 800-meter-long pipeline system, some of which was designed as a tunnel . The operation was at times Saxony's most profitable hydropower plant. The water flowed from a weir in Niederlauterstein into a so-called moated castle above the Strobel mill and then through pipes with an inner diameter of two meters at an angle of 45 ° and a water column of 17 meters to the turbine in the building. Today only remnants of the plant can be seen, which was shut down in the 1960s for health and safety reasons.
Production process
The tree trunks for production were delivered via the Reitzenhain – Flöha railway line , peeled, cut and then processed by three wood grinders to make wood pulp (a raw material for paper production) with rotating sandstones. In the further course of production, the wooden blocks pressed with water pressure became wood fibers, which, mixed with water, ran through channels to the refiners , then on over felts to the three roller machines, where the wood pulp ran in layers and then removed separately with a wooden knife and as a wooden pack on carts was loaded. Particularly white wood pulp was bleached with an additive beforehand on the sieves . 9,000 kg of wood pulp were produced in 24 hours.
Children's holiday camp "Anne Frank"
In 1957, the VEB Bau- und Montagekombinat Halle acquired the Strobel mill as a holiday property for the employees and operated it as the “Anne Frank” children's holiday camp. In the decades that followed, the holiday camp was also used for pre-military training in the GDR . In 1988/89 the Stasi made preparations to use the Strobel mill as an internment camp for political opponents.
Christian leisure home
In 1993 the former Hallesche Mitteldeutsche Bau AG from Halle was privatized by the Treuhandanstalt and became the new owner of the holiday property as the successor company. The association CVJM Strobel-Mühle Pockautal e. V. took over the property and expanded it into a youth meeting center. The YMCA is also the legal entity of the institution. The opening took place on May 16, 1998 after some young communities from the region renovated the respective rooms. In 1999 and 2002, the respective “floods of the century” caused great damage on the site and in the house. In 2002 the "High Ropes Course Erzgebirge" was opened. In 2006, the YMCA bought the Strobel mill. From 2008 to 2009 the new glass house was built as a multifunctional building with a climbing hall. In 2016 the 2nd floor was completely modernized and expanded.
Ore Mountains high ropes course
The high ropes course was opened on July 13, 2002 and is one of the largest climbing parks in Germany.
Ore Mountains climbing world
The Erzgebirge climbing world was opened on October 10th, 2009 and offers more than 70 routes to choose from on over 500 m² climbing surface and up to 14 m high.
Events
Organized by the YMCA, numerous Christian events take place here every year, especially for young people.
Transport links
The Strobel mill can be reached via the state road 224 (Rittersberg-Pockau). In 2006 the nearby Strobelmühle stop was built on the Reitzenhain – Flöha railway line . However, with the timetable change on December 15, 2013, the scheduled travel between Marienberg and Pockau-Lengefeld was discontinued.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freie Presse Online : timetable change for the railway: Marienberg rolls onto the siding , accessed on December 15, 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 48.8 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 41.1" E