Exchange mill

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Restaurant Schlösschen zu Tauschermühle in 1906

The Tauschermühle was a historic water mill along with a restaurant on Zschorlauer Strasse in Aue . The building ensemble emerged from a stamping mill on the Zschorlaubach , which was used for silver mining in the 15th century. In 1570 it was converted into a water mill . In 1902 a restaurant was added. Due to vacancy and decay, the Tauschermühle restaurant was completely demolished in 2014/2015.

history

At the Zschorlaubach in Neudörfel near Aue, mine owners had a mechanical device built in the 15th century to extract silver from ore , which was powered by water power . This stamp mill was one of the oldest witnesses to the history of silver mining in the Ore Mountains . When the ore extraction was no longer producing a large yield, the owner Georg Heß had the stamping mill converted in 1570 to operate a mill for grinding grain, oil and as a sawmill with water power and transmission belts. It was called "Untere Heßmühle" and was one of five mills in the Aue area. The heirs of Heß used the mill until the beginning of the 18th century. In 1785, the mill complex consisted of a main building and two auxiliary buildings and was named Tauscher Mühle on a mine map at that time . The two mill buildings of the exchange mill specified in the new alphabetical index of places of the Kingdom of Saxony for the year 1836 belonged officially to the district of Grünhain (Z III) and the district of Wiesenburg (Z II). The owners were parish to the parish of Zwönitz and Neustädtel near Schneeberg. The main mill building, inaugurated in 1583, was not a simple functional structure, but rather well designed. In a contemporary publication on art monuments it says: “... with a colored sandstone arched door, the door of which is adorned with an iron knocker; with half-timbering ... "

In the 19th century, Johannes Christian Matthes became the owner of the mill complex. His descendants ran the mill until 1932. The water wheel was taken out of service after 1917 because it was derelict.

In 1902 Louis Hermann Matthes opened a restaurant diagonally across from the mill , which he called Restaurant Schlösschen zur Tauschermühle . The Art Nouveau building was given a corresponding lettering on the facade. A postcard from 1925 also reads “Etablissement Schlösschen zur Tauschermühle”, and Max Uhlmann is named as the owner. The property was advertised with a garden bar, hunting room, guest room and veranda, and a “car stop” (probably a parking lot ) was also noted. Both the mill complex and the restaurant were transferred to Max Bretschneider in 1931, who was able to secure the generation of energy by purchasing and installing a water turbine . The turbine got its drive water from the mill ditch. In addition, the "Schlösschen" was connected to the city gas network. The restaurant developed into a popular excursion and dance establishment in the 1930s and early 1940s.

After the end of the war in 1945, Soviet soldiers used the mill turbine to charge lamp batteries . The soldiers also provided their horses with fresh water on the premises.

When the GDR was founded, the Tauschermühle restaurant was operated by the HO , and the property was still owned by Max Bretschneider. After his death in 1982, the restaurant business was probably given up. The city administration of Aue then rented the building for living.

The German reunification in 1990 brought about the dissolution of the HO and the last tenants left their apartments in 1998. Investors or buyers were not found afterwards, so that the restaurant complex fell into disrepair and became a general danger. As early as 2007, parts of the gable collapsed and some fell onto the street. The building supervision of the district therefore decided in summer 2014 to demolish it, which began on September 17th. The Mühlweg, which opens onto Zschorlauer Straße, still reminds of the history of the place.

The mill complex

Remaining foundation of the mill wheel chamber, 2019

The main mill building stood along the slope on a granite and slate foundation . A two-story half-timbered and brick building rose above the basement-free foundation. A slate-covered gable roof completed the building. Downslope grown was from natural stone built chamber for the water wheel with water withdrawal crispness to Zschorlaubach.

Ruin of the residential building, to the left of it wooden barn, condition 2019

Next to the main building there was a built-out three-storey barn with a cellar , also made of natural stone up to the basement.

The restaurant building erected further to the west on Zschorlauer Strasse had arched windows on the ground floor and a half-hipped roof. The owners lived upstairs. Structural changes must have been made between 1902 and the 1950s, because in a comparison of historical postcards with later photos, the street-side gable and bay window show fewer decorations and the fully glazed veranda from earlier years has disappeared.

Former owners had dammed a 750 square meter pond directly on the site of the mill  , in which they farmed fish . The pond was abandoned.

In the 21st century, the city administration of Aue was looking for a new operator for the restaurant, but nobody could be found. - So the building was first targeted by vandals , in 2014/15 it had to be demolished for security reasons. The ruinous remains of the residential stables are now also in great danger of collapsing and secured with a metal wire fence (status October 2019).

Literature and main source

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Schiffner: Handbook of Geography: Statistics and Topography of the Kingdom of Saxony, 1839 , snippet on books.google.de: "The exchange mill is both an oil and a Bretmuehle."
  2. ^ History of the St. Anna treasure trove at www.heimatfest-zschorlau.de ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  3. ^ New alphabetical index of places of the Kingdom of Saxony. Compiled from official news by the directorate of the statistical association for the Kingdom of Saxony (Google eBook) , 1836, Walthersche Verlagbuchhandlung Dresden. Snippet on books.google.de
  4. ↑ Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , issues 6–7; On commission from CC Meinhold, 1886 snippet on books.google.de
  5. ↑ Histor. AK from 1925 on www.akpool.de; Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Note on the gas network from the Saxon Official Gazette No. 10 of March 8, 2012 [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on Oct. 2, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.amtsblatt_10_2012_nl.pdf  
  7. ↑ a b The Tauschermühle complex is now finally history
  8. ↑ Tauschermühle in Aue is demolished on www.hitradio-rtl.de; Retrieved September 30, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 5.7 "  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 55.1"  E