Watermill bath mills

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Watermill bath mills

The bathing mills watermill, originally built in 1542, is located in bathing mills , a village that belongs to the town of Zeven in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district of Lower Saxony . Today's mill building was built as a brick building in 1836 and is privately owned. The watermill is part of the tourist mill route in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district and the Lower Saxony mill road .

location

Watermill bathing mills with a view of the mill pond

The mill building is located on a large mill pond, whose tributary is the bath .

history

Technology inside the watermill

In the past, the watermill could be operated all year round due to an adequate water supply. In past centuries there were disputes between some farmers living upstream of the Bade and the miller. Because the farmers dammed up the baths in order to flood their meadows from time to time. This severely restricted the operation of the mill. After legal proceedings, the miller was granted the sole right to damming in the bathing area and the farmers had to remove their weirs again. A special feature of the water mill bath mills is the fact that buckwheat could even be processed due to the three grinding courses available at the time . Today there are still two grinding courses.

In 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, the former wooden bridge over the mill weir was blown up by German soldiers, and the water wheel and weir were also destroyed. A new construction took place in 1953. In 1995 a new, undershot metal water wheel was attached to the mill. The mill technology was reconstructed and is now fully functional again.

In 2000, the Bad Fishing Club installed a 12-meter-long fish pass at the bathing mill , which connects to the upper reaches of the Bade.

literature

  • Wilhelm von Hodenberg (ed.), Bremen historical sources, 3 parts (Hanover and Celle 1850–1857). Here: Volume II, p. 105
  • Andreas Kurth, Europe's stars shine at the mill on the banks of the Bade, excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung from March 11, 2000 in the archive of the Zeven municipality
  • Andreas Kurth, In the old watermill at the Bade a “mill wheel will soon rattle again”, excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung dated December 24, 1998 in the archive of the Zeven municipality
  • Monica Lohmeyer-Wulf, 500-year-old mill restored, excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung from January 17, 2006 in the archive of the Zeven municipality
  • Monica Lohmeyer-Wulf, tourist attraction: Old watermill near Zeven, excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung of June 22, 1996 in the archive of the Zeven municipality
  • Wolfgang Millert, tourist magnet and great historical backdrop, excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung from March 26, 2007 in the archive of the Zeven municipality
  • Hans Monsees / Badeühlener-Bürger (ed.), Village Chronicle Badühlen, Badühlen, 1989, pp. 29–33
  • Touristikverband Landkreis Rotenburg between Heide and Nordsee eV - TouROW (Hrsg.), "Discover mill route by bike", leaflet from the series "Holidays and leisure in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme), o. O., 2014.
  • Hans G. Trüper, knight and squire between the Elbe and Weser. Die Ministerialität des Erzstifts Bremen, 1st edition. Stade (Publishing House of the Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden eV, 2000), Series of publications by the Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden No. 12 (also Vechta, University, dissertation, 1998), p 217
  • Friedrich Wäbekindt (ed.), Small local history of the district of Zeven, Zeven (Verlag JF Zellers Buchdruckerei), 2nd expanded edition 1931, p. 56

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the information sign on the building. In the Vörder Register , the mill at the bath is also mentioned as a service loan, which is why the year 1498 appears as the first mention in other sources.

Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 53.9 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 55.3"  E