Full mill interruption

The full mill interruption had its location on the left side at Old Bach of the worm at the Wassenberger Straße 1, in the district of interruption in the town of Heinsberg. The property on which the mill building stands is approx. 37 m above sea level . With the worm regulation in the 1960s, the new Wurm river bed was created about 30 m from the mill. Before that, it was the Alte Bach der Wurm, an artificial branch from the Wurm, which supplied the mill with water.

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

The first documented history of the Vollmühle interruption relates to the year 1419. In that year Johann II von Leon, Herr zu Heinsberg , and his wife Margaretha von Gennep sold Gerhard von der Huet a grain rent of 100 Malter rye for 1400 guilders , 40 of which came from the lease of the Vollmühle. The use of the mill was very diverse. In the course of its history it was used as a fulling mill , grain, oil, bone and tan mill as well as for chopping. For the places Unter- and Oberbruch there was at times a mill obligation . In the 17th century the village of Unterbruch was the operator of the mill , in the French times the town of Heinsberg . The current buildings were erected in 1827. With the worm regulation in the 1960s, the water wheel of the full mill also disappeared from the scene. Until 1983, the mill continued to operate with an electric drive in the listed mill .

gallery

The worm with a wooden bridge at the Vollmühle Unterbruch
Old-time silent witness
Memorial cross at the Vollmühle Unterbruch
The Vollmühle interruption on the first recording from 1846
The Vollmühle interruption on the new recording from 1892
The Vollmühle interruption on the tranchot card 1805/1807

Monument entry

Vollmühle from 1828 (anchor pins on the house), three-winged brick courtyard, two-storey house on the gable in two to seven axes

Way cross in front of the building from the middle of the 19th century, stone base, cross and body, cast iron, entry in the list of monuments on July 8, 1985

Heinsberg Monument List No. 87

literature

Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 294-295.
Hubert Berens: The mills of the city of Heinsberg home calendar of the district of Heinsberg 1985, page 23-35
H. Tichelbäcker: The Heinsberger Mühlenkanal home calendar of the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1962, page 128-135 and 1963, page 142-144

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Vollmühle Unterbruch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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