Wassmannsmühle

Wassmannsmühle City of Weismain Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 6 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	355 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	12  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Postal code :	96260
Area code :	09575
Location of Waßmannsmühle in Bavaria

Wassmannsmühle
The former country inn on the Waßmannsmühle estate
Location and history
Coordinates	50 ° 3 ′ 6 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 45 ″  E
Location	Germany  Bavaria Weismain - Kleinziegenfelder Tal
Waters	Weismain
Built	Possibly. 16th Century
Shut down	1850s
Status	Completely removed, outbuildings preserved
technology
use	Paper mill
Grinder	unknown
drive	Watermill
water wheel	Formerly: unknown Today: water turbine on an outbuilding to generate electricity

The Waßmannsmühle (formerly also Schammendorfer Papiermühle or Untere Papiermühle ) is a former paper and later grain mill in the city ​​of Weismain , about two kilometers south of Schammendorf , at the beginning of the Kleinziegenfelder valley . With twelve residents and three other properties, it forms the district of Waßmannsmühle. The mill building is protected as a historical monument and is managed by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under monument number D-4-78-176-149 .

history

Early modern times - name

When the Waßmannsmühle was built cannot be said with any certainty. Based on old records, it is assumed that the mill was built on the Weismain before 1600 . The mill was first documented beyond doubt as “Papir Mühl” in a document from 1624. The name “Lower Paper Mill” appeared for the first time at the beginning of the 18th century, when a second paper mill, the Schrepfersmühle in the Kleinziegenfelder valley, was built further upstream . In the spring of 1786 the former mill owner died, probably childless, so that the mill, which was given as a fief , fell back to Karl Franz von Schaumberg , who looked for a buyer for it in May of the same year with newspaper advertisements. The mill was given the name Waßmannsmühle in 1803, when the traditional Würzburg papermaking family Waßmann took over the business by marrying into the Tempel papermaking family, who owned the mill at the time.

19th century until today - heyday and decline

The reputation of the mill, which by then was already known nationwide for its high-quality paper , increased significantly with the appointment of the miller Waßmann in the summer of 1807 as papiri confector magister . Due to the onset of industrialization, it became increasingly difficult for the Waßmannsmühle to remain competitive, so that it was already bankrupt in 1850 and ceased operations a few years later.

In 1930 the mill building diagonally opposite the still existing old building, which is often mistakenly mistaken for the original Waßmann mill, burned down completely. The latter was a former country inn that is now used as a residential building. From 1930 to 1950 the house had a small mill wheel that was used to grind grain . Mid-1950s, it was replaced by a turbine that since with a rated power of 28  KW of power generation is used.

Population development

The table shows the population development of the Waßmannsmühle district based on individual data.

year	Residents	source
1833	6th
2012	12
2013	12
2015	12

architecture

The building of the former country inn is a hipped roof building from the late 18th century. The ground floor is made of solid stone, the upper floor is half-timbered with four to five windows.

When the mill was at its heyday from around the second half of the 18th century to the first third of the 19th century, the actual mill complex included a house, an outbuilding, a barn , an oven , a courtyard , several fields, a spice garden and a rock cellar . The now abandoned rock cellar used to be used to store the paper rolls. The year-round constant temperature and humidity conditions were ideal for storing the sensitive rolls.

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  Former location of the actual Waßmannsmühle

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  Former millstone of the Waßmannsmühle

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  Turbine box with a continuous turbine behind the former country inn

Others

The watermark of the Wassmansmühle around 1820

A watermark from the year 1820 from a sheet of paper from the Waßmannsmühle has been used since 1985 as a symbol for the local history journal for the district of Lichtenfels Vom Main zum Jura . It shows two biblical spies returning from the Promised Land with a large grape .

literature

• Jutta Böhm: Mill bike tour. Routes: Kleinziegenfelder Tal and Bärental , Weismain environmental station in the Lichtenfels district, Weismain / Lichtenfels (Lichtenfels district), 2000, 52 pages (numerous illustrations, canton)

Web links

Commons : Waßmannsmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Waßmannsmühle in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

See also

List of mills on the Weismain and Krassach rivers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Böhm (2000), p. 19.
3. ↑ Mühle, Waßmannsmühle 1 , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
4. ↑ There is a paper mill in Kleinziegenfeld for sale from a freyer hand , In: Bayreuther Zeitung , Appendix to issue 69 of June 9, 1786, Bayreuth 1786, online: ( full text )
5. ↑ Böhm (2000), p. 27.
6. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann: Geographical description of the Archdiocese of Bamberg: together with a short overview of the suffragan dioceses: Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer . Bamberg 1833, p. 511 ( full text in Google Book Search). , P. 484
7. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ ^{a b} Böhm (2000), p. 5.