Tower windmill Grottenherten
The tower windmill is a listed secular building on Mühlenstraße in Grottenherten , a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The building is the landmark of the place.
History and architecture
The plastered brick building was built by Anton Iven in 1831. This mill is a transit Dutchman . It stands on a walled hill, through the basement of which one can drive with carts. The grinder , the hood and the harvester have been preserved. The wings were renewed in 1981.
In the middle of the 19th century, the mill with the adjoining residential buildings provided accommodation for eight people. A half-timbered barn in the Eifel was bought from the then miller in 1881 , demolished there and rebuilt here next to the mill.
Electric and steam drive
In the 1930s, the mill was electrified and an electric motor was installed to drive it , so the mill operation was independent of wind and weather. A steam engine was probably also installed in the adjacent machine house, which presumably drove an additional grinding mill in the storage room.
The mill was in operation until 1964, after which it was still occasionally ground feed grain using an electric motor .
literature
- Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 449
Web links
- Story and photos
- Photo and story (accessed April 16, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 3 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 33.6" E