Fulling Mill Ohrensen
The fulling mill in Ohrensen is a monument in Ohrensen , a district of the municipality of Bargstedt in the Lower Saxony district of Stade . It is one of the last of its kind in Lower Saxony. Today it is used as a youth facility for boy scouts .
location
The fulling mill is located on the Tiefenbach in the Auetal south-west of Ohrensen, below the Hagedorn farm, where fish farming is carried out. The mill is hidden by oaks and a steep slope and can be reached via a narrow path from the main path. This main route was in earlier times an important military and trade route ( Via Romea ); all that remained of him was the dirt road to Hollenbeck . The Walkmühle is connected to Ohrensen via the Walkmühle street . The floodplain and the Aueniederung nature reserve and side valleys are not far away.
history
Age
It is not known exactly when the fulling mill was built. It was first mentioned in a document in 1664; In this document it was documented that the owner of the former monastery and the surrounding lands, the so-called Herrschaft Harsefeld , Pierre Bidal gave his fulling mill to the Hagedorn family again for seven years, who lived in their yard next to the fulling mill and still live there today, leased. Originally the mill belonged to the Harsefeld monastery . As early as 1633 it was registered there in the grain and money register.
function
For centuries the hard pieces of weave used by the peasant women were milled there, made soft and supple so that they lasted for a long time. The power of the mill wheel was transferred to a shaft that drove heavy rammers. They made sure that the pieces of weave were softened in vats . Up to 150 m of fabric fit in such a tub. 10 pfennigs had to be paid per meter. The walking took about six hours. The fulling mill had water rights , which earned the fulling mill 100 marks annually ; it was dissolved in 1921. From December to May there was a walk. People from the districts of Stade , Bremervörde and partly also from Harburg came to mill their woven pieces. Since one had large families and also employees such as maids and servants , the fulling mill was always in full swing. The white tanners came from May to August to full their skins. They were housed in the Hagedorn family's barn ; the living room in the effort only served as a lounge and storage room for the work equipment. After white tanning had decreased more and more (in the end there were only two white tanners who then slept in the mill itself, initially up to ten), it did not occur at all from the 1880s.
End of the fulling mill
Due to its location, the lonely Müllerhof was prone to thunderstorms and looting during wars. In 1675/76 Landsknechts of the bishop of Münster roamed the country and caused fear and horror. In January 1676 they attacked Müller Christian Hagedorn. Other mercenaries pierced the mill's dam ; it was then unusable for a year and a half.
The fulling mill was in operation until the beginning of the 19th century. The industrial production of fabrics gradually put an end to this. A heavy thunderstorm in the afternoon, around 5 p.m., on May 24, 1907, which led to heavy hailstorms with walnut-sized hailstones, broke through the mill dam and swept the entire bulkhead with it . All of Ohrensen was flooded, the harvest destroyed and the new highway destroyed. Then one day the miller also sawed off the shaft of the mill wheel and it crashed against the mill and rotted away. The vats and pounders were lost, the living room was used as a duck pen, and the rest of the mill was used as a storage room. Storm and bad weather left two large holes in the roof. The farmer wanted to demolish the old building, but his wife prevented him and made sure that the holes in the roof were mended.
Use as a youth facility
First reconstruction
The first reconstruction took place from 1929 onwards by a troop from the Gaues Niederelbe der Geusen , Bund der Junge Nation . Two or three times a month they came from Hamburg or Harburg by bike, replaced doors and windows, renewed the timber frame and the floor and installed a stove and an oven. Furniture was purchased and the floor was converted into a dormitory. In 1930 the work was completed.
Destruction by the Hitler Youth and World War II
From 1934, the Hitler Youth claimed the building for themselves and used it for war games and was badly damaged. During fighting in 1945, the Hagedorn farm burned down. The fulling mill deteriorated more and more. The mill wheel was meanwhile completely rotten and could not be preserved.
Second reconstruction
The second reconstruction was carried out by the Harsefeld scouts . They diligently rebuilt the building, supported by apprentices. The building was ready to move into as early as 1950; The official inauguration took place in 1953.
1961 until today
In 1961 the fulling mill was up for sale. This was due to the Hagedorn family's financial problems. The district of Stade eventually acquired it because the tribal leader had good relations with the district director , and the district left it to the scouts. At the end of the 1960s, the district of Stade rented it to a judge Bredow, who made the fulling mill available as a meeting place for young people (also for the right-wing Wiking youth) and a party room. In the 1960s, hikes into the Auetal valley with a stop at the fulling mill were part of the compulsory school program. After the scout tribe was re-established in 1976, the tribe wanted to have the decrepit fulling mill for themselves again. First appointments were made with Mr. Bredow, but then the district began to manage the building on its own. From then on, the youth welfare office gave the dates.
We slept on the sleeping loft, the beds of which were soon removed due to the complicated cleaning. It was later lined with PVC , an oil stove was purchased, and later it was switched to gas heating . After the gray water from the kitchen was initially directed into the Tiefenbach, a biological sewage treatment plant was bought .
After the fire on the roof structure, which could never be resolved, on June 20, 1986, numerous renovations were carried out.
Uncertain future
In 2016 the headline of the Stader Tageblatt was Uncertain Future for the Fulling Mill . It was about the lack of fire protection in the attic and about privatization in the room
literature
- Adolf Peter Krönke: The Harsefeld patch. Harsefeld. 1967.
- Ludwig Schmidt: The Wakmühe von Ohrensen. Reprint from the Stader Archive 1933 / New Series Issue 23.
- Ludwig Schmidt: From the fulling mill in Ohrensen. In: Announcements of the Stade History and Local History Association. 27th year, issue 1/2 1953.
- Association for monastery u. Local history Harsefeld. e. V. (Ed.): Past and present 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 28 ′ 0.4 ″ E