Trichtenhauser Mill
The Trichtenhauser Mühle was originally a watermill in Zollikerberg in the municipality of Zollikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich . It stood on the Wehrenbach , which forms the border with the city of Zurich . Today a restaurant is housed in the buildings.
history
Surname
The name Trichtenhausen is mentioned for the first time as truhtilhusa (House of Truhtilo) on April 28, 946 in the same document in which the place name Zollikon appears as collinchovin . The document states that Trichtenhausen and Zollikon have to deliver the church tax to the Grossmünster provost. However, the name did not refer to the mill , but to the hamlets of Wilhof and Unterhueb in what is now Zollikerberg. In the second half of the 20th century, the name Trichtenhausen was replaced by the emerging term Zollikerberg.
Mill
In a tax register of the city of Zurich, a miller in Trichtenhausen is found for the first time in 1417: he is called Uli Fritig . In 1444, at the time of the Old Zurich War , the Rüti monastery , which had stately property in Zollikerberg , lent the mill to a Rudolf Ochsner from Witikon . The annual interest rate was set at 3.75 Mütt kernels (cereal grains), three chickens and fifty eggs.
In 1463 a Hans Motz is mentioned as a miller. In an alms office bill in 1528 a certain Rechstein was named as a miller in Truchtenhusen . In 1593, Hans Lang, the founder of a miller dynasty, only came to an end in 1699 when his great-grandson Heinrich gave up the fiefdom. Heinrich, who had remained childless, sold the mill to Heinrich Weber from Witikon for 8,000 guilders. In addition to the main building, the mill then comprised a water saw, a trot , various stables and barns, around 120 ares of gardens and around 530 ares of fields, meadows, forests and vines.
Heinrich Weber left behind his 14-year-old daughter Susanna when he died in 1723. The widow tried to get them married quickly in order to be able to continue the business. Susanna was married to the miller Felix Bühler in 1724; permission had to be obtained because the young bride was underage. Felix Bühler acquired the mill in 1727. Susanna Bühler died in 1736 at the age of 29, her husband eleven years later. Her son Hansjakob died drunk in 1759 at the age of 24 and left behind a mountain of debt, as large loans had to be taken out to run the mill.
Hansjakob Bühler's brother-in-law sold the mill for 9,400 guilders to the district judge Kaspar Weidmann, a miller from Embrach . He and his sons led the mill from a run-down business to a widely recognized mill in the 19th century.
On May 17, 1832, the Zurich government passed a law that converted the basic charges of grain, chickens and eggs, which were still valid until then, into a debt of 624 francs. 30 years later, the owner paid back the amount and thus got rid of a servitude that was over 500 years old . In a cadastre from 1801 the mill is listed with a value of 880 francs; the highest sum of all farms in the Zollikerberg. The operation included two water wheels: a large one with a diameter of ten meters that drove the two grinders in the main building, and a smaller one that drove the saw, an oil press and a pounder for breaking hemp in the lower building .
In 1872 the mill came into the possession of the Heer family, who still own it today. In the course of the 19th century a restaurant was added - it is not known whether it was owned by the Heer family. For many decades the mill was one of the most popular excursion destinations around the city of Zurich. Guests were catered for in a small restaurant and in summer in a large garden restaurant above the mill building. In 1932 the two mill wheels were removed. The mill wheel installed above the mill today comes from the Zurich Oberland and was built in 1984. The sawmill was operated with water power until 1963. In 1970 the whole company was modernized.
Horticulture
Old dining room
View around 1900
The Heer family around 1920
In 1963, an extension in which the mill wheel had rotated was demolished during an extensive renovation. This created space for a more spacious restaurant, a hall and a meeting room. Today the Trichtenhauser Mühle is an upscale eatery.
Destruction
Today's entrance used to lead to the basement; a door arch bears the year 1666. It is conceivable that a flood disaster led to a renovation in which the entrance was relocated to the east side of the first floor. Such a flood of the Wehrenbach caused great damage to the main building on July 8, 1788 and tore the small lower mill away with a saw. The event was recorded by the Zolliker jury Thomann in a diary entry: ... at the same time rivers of water flowed down to the earth ... between 7 and 8 it was the strongest, especially with a terrible thunder and lightning, the sky was full of fire. ... The sight of the Werenbach was terrible and sad, too, when the miller von Trichtenhusen completely took away his worm, part of the garbage, from the living room, so that he just wanted to escape ... The same storm caused the neighboring Küsnacht to much greater destruction in which numerous people were killed.
Reading circle
For years the Trichtenhauser Mühle served the Hottingen reading circle as a venue for festivities and performances of all kinds. The circle was founded in 1882 by the 19-year-old Hans Bodmer. The circle included Meinrad Lienert, Othmar Schoeck, Ernst Eschmann and Volkmar Andreae, among others.
literature
- Zolliker yearbook 1982: Contribution by Richard Humm.
- Alexander Nüesch, Heinrich Bruppacher : The old Zollikon. Zurich 1899.
- Albert Heer: Local history Zollikon. Zurich 1925.
- Richard Humm: From Gstad to Sennhof. Zollikon 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ StAZH F III 1 a, 1528, p. 31.
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '2 " N , 8 ° 36' 7.4" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and five / 245 063