Waldmühle (Kürten)

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Forest mill
Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 40 ″  E
Postal code : 51515
Waldmühle (Kürten)
Forest mill

Location of Waldmühle in Kürten

Waldmühle is a residential area in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis , named after the watermill built there in 1862.

Location and description

The place is on Wipperfürther Straße between Broich and Kürten.

history

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province list Waldmühle in 1871 with three houses and 26 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, four residential buildings with 21 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had four houses and 22 residents. In 1905 the place had four houses and 33 residents and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Kürten.

In 1927 the mayor's office in Kürten was transferred to the office of Kürten. In the Weimar Republic in 1929 the offices of Kürten were merged with the municipalities of Kürten and Bechen and Olpe with the municipalities of Olpe and Wipperfeld to form the office of Kürten. The Wipperfürth district became part of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district on October 1, 1932, with its seat in Bergisch Gladbach .

In 1975 the current municipality of Kürten was established on the basis of the Cologne Act , to which, in addition to the offices of Kürten, Bechen and Olpe, a sub-area of ​​the city of Bensberg with Dürscheid and the surrounding areas was added.

The forest mill

The forest mill on the Kalsbach was a relatively young watermill . The completely preserved grinding aisles with richly decorated hand-made paper and the massive oak grinding floor of the mill built in 1862 are still located inside the bakery and restaurant, which was modernized in 1978. The Kalsbach still flows through the ice house today.

The mill has been owned by the Herweg family since 1897 . It was passed through a 6 meter large water wheel driven from iron, which was installed in 1948 by the Bauer mill Holler. The water wheel drove two grinding gears (one for wheat flour , one for grist ) via a crown gear ; alternatively, an electric motor could also be switched on via an angular gear and transmission . The mill was still in operation until 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  2. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909
  5. ^ History of the municipality of Kürten
  6. ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 1072
  7. ↑ a b Herbert Nicke : Bergische Mühlen. On the trail of the use of hydropower in the land of a thousand mills between Wupper and Sieg . Galunder, Wiehl 1998, ISBN 3-931251-36-5 , pp. 270 f .