Watermill Blumenau (Wunstorf)

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The Blumenau watermill in Blumenau near Wunstorf was a watermill operated on the Aue for centuries . The technical building near the Amtshof Blumenau was also the forced mill for all farmers in this area, even if they lived almost 20 kilometers from this mill - as in the village of Limmer , for example .

history

From the middle of the 17th century, there were repeated disputes about the mill compulsion of the Blumenau watermill. In 1651 Georg Wilhelm , baroque - absolutist sovereign of the principality of Calenberg , had the old watch tower on the Lindener Berg near Hanover converted into a Dutch windmill, which was modern at the time, with a rotating upper part. He then ordered his subjects in the parish of Limmer and in the villages of Letter and Harenberg to have their grain ground in linden trees . However, this led to complaints from the - official - miller employed by the Office of Blumenau, who subsequently lost a substantial part of his previous income.

The importance of the Blumenau watermill continued to decline in the decades after 1651, after additional mills were built at Steinhude , Bordenau , Ostermunzel and in front of the Steintor and the Calenberger Tor near Hanover.

There was still a watermill in Blumenau around 1900, which was shown as one of the tourist attractions of the place, for example on a multi-colored lithographed postcard from the Hanoverian art institute Willy Hoehl .

In the literature

Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst wrote in his second part of the handbook for officers in the applicable parts of war science , published in 1788, a detailed description of the situation of the Blumenau watermill and the waters in its vicinity.

Archival material

Archives from and about the Blumenau watermill and connections can be found, for example

  • in the map collection of the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location)
    • as a sketch of the location of the Blumenau dam near Wunstorf from the first half of the 19th century by the master builder Georg Ludwig Comperl , signature NLA HA map collection No. 12 f Wunstorf 19 pk (old archive signature III 32320/98 );
    • as a project to convert the machinery of the watermill in Blumenau Scale: 1: 110 Format: 58 × 95 cm from 1865, signature NLA HA map collection no. 13 f Blumenau 6 pg ;
    • as an icebreaker in front of the mill bridge to Blumenau from the 19th century, signature NLA HA map collection No. 13 f Blumenau 45 pk

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Die Windmühle von Limmer , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 50 (1996), pp. 259-274; here: p. 259
  2. ↑ Compare, for example, the offer of the multi-image card with the Gasthaus Fr. Büchmann , the castle and the garden
  3. ^ Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst: Ueberschwemmungen. in: Handbook for Officers, in the Applicable Parts of War Sciences . Pp. 194-199 (Google Books). Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references from the Lower Saxony archive information system

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '12.4 "  N , 9 ° 26' 54.9"  E