Interrupt mill

Interrupt mill
The courtyard side of the Unterbrucher mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 4 '19 "  N , 6 ° 7' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '19 "  N , 6 ° 7' 37"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia District of Heinsberg Heinsberg
Waters	worm
Built	1800
Shut down	1985
Status	Listed property
technology
use	Oil and grinder mill
Grinder	1 grind 1 oil press
drive	2 water wheels
water wheel	undershot

The Unterbrucher Mühle was a water mill with two undershot water wheels on the Wurm , in the town of Heinsberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The full mill interruption had its location on the right and left side of the worm to the worm 17, in the district of interruption in the town of Heinsberg. The property on which the mill building stands is approx. 38 m above sea ​​level . Above stood the Oberbruch oil and paper mill , below the Tohmühle worked .

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level. The confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the town of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worm straightening was carried out. The curving, now and then meandering course of the river disappeared in favor of a simple route . The river length shortened and the flow speed increased. For many people the flood protection improved , for the mills it was the end. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

With the French occupation in 1800 moved to the native climes also a certain freedom of trade one. This had the consequence for the mill system that several mills were rebuilt around this time. This resulted in four successive worm mills over a distance of less than 10 km. These were the Porselener Mühle, Oberbruch oil and paper mill, Unterbrucher Mühle and the Lohmühle.

The mill was built around 1800 by Heinrich Lowis as the owner of the Porselener mill . On the left side of the worm he built an oil and grinder mill with two undershot water wheels. In 1816 Lowis expanded the business by building a small paper mill on the opposite side . The identical construction with the Porselener mill was clearly recognizable. In 1821 the mill was sold. The paper mill only worked until 1858. The grain mill worked until 1995. After the worm had been straightened , the mill was operated with an electric motor .

Monument entry

Unterbrucher Mühle: brick building from 1833 (anchor pins), half-timbered building in the first half of the 18th century, but modified in 1916, two-storey brick building, half-timbered front e.g. T. changed. Entry in the list of monuments on January 30, 1984

• Heinsberg Monument List No. 91

gallery

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  The mill building of the Unterbrucher Mühle

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  Wall vault for the wheel axle of the mill wheel

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  Drawing of the Interrupt Mill with water wheel

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  The Unterbrucher Mühle on the first recording from 1846

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  The Unterbrucher mill on the new record from 1892

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  Interruption on the tranchot card 1805/1807

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 294-295.

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

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

• Homepage of the city of Heinsberg
• Monument to the Interrupt Mill

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.wver.de/