Tüshaus mill

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Tüshaus-Mill from Unterwasser

The Tüshaus-Mühle is a water mill near Dorsten - Deuten in North Rhine-Westphalia . The mill is located on the southern edge of the forest area of Üfter Mark , where the water of the Hammbach coming from Rhade to the mill pond is dammed.

history

The history of the Tüshaus-Hof, to which the mill belongs, can be traced back to the year 1382. The Lords of Lembeck , in their territory , the water law occupied, 1615 leased a driven by the waters of Hamm Bach Walkmühle to a certain flourish House . However, the mill was not the first construction on this site as it was built on older foundations. Sheep were mainly kept in the extensive heathland in the area. The wool was in the Tüshaus-Mill from a hammer drumming and a felt material sold to the clothiers of the region for further processing. Customers from Wesel , Recklinghausen , Westerholt , Dülmen , Münster and Dinxperlo can be found in the accounting books . In the 19th century, however, with the decline in sheep farming, the fulling mill became increasingly unprofitable, so that the millers Lüer and Kleine Pecklen milled fabrics for the last time in 1880.

However, the mill had already been stocked up in 1752 and a second mill wheel was added, so that from 1754 it also served the tenant Joan-Heinrich Tüshaus as an oil mill . The oil was obtained primarily from the rapeseed and linseed from the surrounding fields. In 1880 Albert Brosthaus was the oil miller, followed by Dumpe and Schetter. The old equipment of the oil mill was replaced in 1914 by a modern hydraulic oil mill, which pressed the oil from the seeds at 350 atmospheres . The operation of the oil mill was stopped around 1948 for economic reasons.

In 1890 the tenant Heinrich Tüshaus bought the mill from Count von Merveldt . In the same year he had a grain mill with two grinding aisles installed in the converted attic. The old mill wheel was replaced by a modern Francis turbine . The first grain miller was called Kemper, followed by Gerhard Böing. Under the economic pressure of the large mills, the owner Hermann Tüshaus also gave up the operation of the grain mill in 1970. This also stopped the electrical generator installed in 1908 , which had delivered 22 kilowatts of power with a DC voltage of 110 volts. The electricity was previously used for the mill building, the miller's apartment, the neighboring Tüshaus-Hof including a distillery as well as for the marquee of the Schützenfest and the church.

After an extensive restoration, the Tüshaus-Mühle has been producing electricity using hydropower again since May 2014. RWE, Volksbank and the state-owned energy agency NRW helped the city to restore the listed hydropower plant. For this purpose, a new alternator was installed and the speed of the turbine was changed under the condition that the existing technology and the historical appearance should be completely retained. In addition, the existing heating system was replaced with more energy-efficient devices. The Tüshaus-Mühle can now produce electricity for all of its machines, as well as light and heat, via the modern alternating current system. The excess electricity is fed into the lines of the Dorstener Netzgesellschaft. - In the middle of 2014, the non-profit association for the cultural monument Tüshaus Mühle eV was established. The assembly elected Margarete Tüshaus as the founding chairman. The Tüshaus-Verein, the city and the Heimatverein celebrated the 400th anniversary of the mill in September 2015 with fireworks, music and a mill festival.

Restoration as a monument

In February 1982 representatives of the Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments , the Upper Monument Authority and the city of Dorsten came to the Tüshaus-Mühle for an on-site visit. The mill with its eventful history and various forms of use was found to be unique and worth preserving. The costs for an initial repair of the dilapidated mill were estimated at 45,000 DM. Since numerous parts of the technology had to be specially manufactured for a mill, the miller Johannes Böing offered to restore the mill. In the last years of operation of the Tüshaus-Mühle he had learned the trade of miller from his father Gerhard Böing and worked in the Mense mill in Dorsten-Hervest. The restoration of the mill building began in autumn 1983 with the approval of funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The owner Max Tüshaus leased the mill to the city of Dorsten in 1984. In 1985 the construction work was completed and the restoration of the mill technology was ongoing. In 1986 the Tüshaus mill was recognized as a technical cultural monument . The mill started operating as a museum in 1987. The power system from 1908 was restored by VEW AG in 1989 .

Since 1970 the mill has only been put into operation during regular opening times, individually booked tours through the mill or at special events such as the so-called mill festival for demonstration purposes. This takes place every year on Whit Monday and transports all visitors to bygone times when the ground grain was still used for baking bread in the bakery next door.

If you want to travel back in time and get an impression of how the old mill works, you can take part in regular or individual tours. The mill operator sets the leather drive belts and gears in motion and the mill rattles again.

literature

  • Ludwig Tüshaus: Tüshaus mill . In: Home Calendar of Glory Lembeck 1977 . 36th year Dorsten 1976, p. 38-42 .
  • Frank Gläßner: The repair of the Tüshaus mill . In: Heimatkalender der Herrlichkeit Lembeck 1985 . 44th year Dorsten 1984, p. 193-197 .
  • Barbara Wandelt: The Tüshaus-Mühle . Self-published by the Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 1987 (technical cultural monuments in Westphalia, issue 7).

Web links

Commons : Tüshaus Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 23.3 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 31.2"  E