Teufelsmühle (Ilbeshausen)
The Teufelsmühle (also known as Hansenmühle in dialect ) is a half-timbered house and a former watermill in Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen in the municipality of Grebenhain in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse . The building at Mühlweg 3 was built in 1691 and is a protected monument .
history
The Teufelsmühle was originally a fiefdom of the Riedesel , although the village of Ilbeshausen itself had belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse since 1376 . Already in 1496 a mill can be found in Ilbeshausen, which was built by Hermann III. Riedesel von Heyntz Hutzenroder was pledged to Else von Leibolz for two and a half guilders a year. On January 4, 1530, Theodor Riedesel issued a fiefdom letter for the miller Claes Tuveln, who is considered to be the namesake of the devil's mill.
Today's Teufelsmühle was built in 1691. According to local tradition, the builder of the mill was a carpenter named Hans Muth, who built it in seven years and gave it to his godchild Hans Velten Usinger in 1720. In 1889 Carl Schäfer described the devil's mill in his work Die Holzarchitektur Deutschlands from XIV. To XVII. Century . This made the half-timbered building known to a wide audience. Shortly after the first Hessian Monument Protection Act was passed in 1902, the Teufelsmühle was included in the list of monuments of the then Grand Duchy of Hesse .
There is a folk legend from Ilbeshausen about the devil's mill , according to which the mill is said to have been built by a carpenter in competition with the devil.
description
The Teufelsmühle is an asymmetrical two-story half-timbered building. While the façades facing the street are fully two-story and show a richly structured framework, the roof area on the rear extends down to the first ground floor. This design is unusual for half-timbered buildings in the Vogelsberg. The floors of the two façades, especially on the gable, are in two parts. In the lower part there is a continuous band of decorative diamonds, while the upper part is formed by short men . The gable wall has seven projections. The overshot mill wheel is still available and operational .
The year of construction is carved on the frame . There is no building inscription in which the builder or the carpenters are named. The assignment to Hans Muth, who comes from either Lauterbach or Ilbeshausen, is based purely on oral tradition, as the building was always passed on from father to son until the 20th century. The Edelhof in neighboring Crainfeld is also attributed to courage . The oldest component of the Teufelsmühle is, by the way, the front door, which dates from the 16th century and was very likely taken over from the previous building.
literature
- Heinrich Walbe: The Hessian-Franconian framework. (= Schriften des Volks- und Heimatforschung , Volume 4.) Wittich, Darmstadt 1942. / extended edition, 1954.
- Heinrich Winter: The farmhouse and the petty bourgeois house in the Lauterbach area. (= Lauterbach Collections , Volume 22.) Hohhausmuseum, Lauterbach 1959
- Alfred Schneider: In the footsteps of the Lauterbach master builder Hans Muth. Von Teufelsschänke, Teufelsmühle, Edelhof and other Vogelsberg half-timbered houses , Lauterbach 1994
- Association of Ilbeshausen e. V. (Ed.): Ilbeshausen 1012–2012. 1000 years of local history through the ages , Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen 2012
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 11.2 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 30.5" E