Fulling mill Goch

Fulling mill Goch
Course of the Niers in the city area
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 40 '46 "  N , 6 ° 9' 8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 '46 "  N , 6 ° 9' 8"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve district City of Goch
Waters	Niers city ​​moat
Built	before 1419
Shut down	1800
technology
use	Fulling Mill
Grinder	Fulling
drive	Watermill
water wheel	undershot

The fulling mill Goch was a watermill in the city of Goch , located on the Niers moat , with an undershot water wheel .

geography

The fulling mill Goch was located on Mühlendamm, on the city moat of the Niers, in the city of Goch, Kleve district , in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Goch grain mill was located above, the Goch oil mill below .

The Niers has a height of approx. 17 m above sea ​​level here . The care and maintenance of the water is the responsibility of the Niersverband , which is based in Viersen .

history

With the settlement and the first mention of the city of Goch in 1261, an economic basis for the construction of water mills developed on the Niersbogen and Stadtgraben. The location was so excellent that five mills could use the water power of the Niers over a short distance . In the so-called Mühlenviertel near the Mühlentor, these were the Goch oil mill, Goch fulling mill, Goch grain mill, Goch Lohmühle and a little further away and later the Susmühle .

In the Gocher Schöffenbriefe of 1272 and 1275, the existence of a mill was communicated in which a Gerhardus molendarius - Müller Gerhard was named. In 1362 the Graefenthal abbess Isabel von Geldern - a sister of the duke - gave the mills she had left for use to the city of Goch. With the consent of the duke, this turned into a long-term lease , which, if necessary, was linked to the right to enable the construction of further windmills and water mills. In addition to the existing water mills, windmills were also built , which, due to seasonal restrictions with regard to the Nierswiesen, became more and more important.

The fulling mill Goch was built in 1419 as a mill next to the oil mill. It was created after an agreement between the city of Goch and the Wüllenamt (wool weaver's guild). Thanks to sheep breeding on the extensive Gocher Heide , as well as the increasing number of woolen weavers, Goch became the leading cloth- making town in the Lower Rhine region . The fulling mills got more and more competition from industrial textile machines and so the fulling mill Goch was closed in 1800.

gallery

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  Fulling mill Goch on the new recording in 1892

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  Fulling mill on the original cadastral map 1843

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  Fulling mill Goch on the Tranchot card 1802

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 .
• Susanne Sommer: Mills on the Lower Rhine . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1113-3 .

Web links

Commons : Fulling Mill Goch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Goch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.niersverband.de/