Vorster mill

Vorster mill
Tranchot card No. 34 1802/04
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 22 '36 "  N , 6 ° 19' 57"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '36 "  N , 6 ° 19' 57"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve district community Wachtendonk
Waters	Nice
Built	1456 mentioned when the estate is divided
Shut down	1919 End of milling activity
technology
use	Flour mill
Grinder	1 grind
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The Vorster Mühle was a former watermill located on the Nette in the municipality of Wachtendonk with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The Vorster Mühle was located on the Nette, Harzbecker Straße / Gortschesweg, in the Vorst district, in the Wachtendonk district of Kleve in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Nette has a height of about 34 m above sea ​​level here . The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Netteverband , which is based in Nettetal .

history

When the Bocholtz family was divided up in 1456, Katharina von Bocholtz and her husband received not only some goods in Wankum but also the nearby mill "op den Vorst". This is the first and only message from the old days. The flour mill with an undershot water wheel was closed after the First World War , around 1919. The dilapidated mill was removed during the regulation of the Nette in 1937/38.

gallery

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  Former mill pond

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  The nice one at the former Vorster Mühle

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , p. 473.

Web links

Commons : Vorster Mühle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Nice Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.netteverband.de/