Brzeźnica watermill
The Bresnitz watermill or Eichendorff mill ( Polish: Młyn wodny w Brzeźnicy ) is a mill in the town of the same name in the rural community of Rudnik in Upper Silesia .
history
In the 1920s, the former wooden mill building was torn down and replaced with a brick one. The mill was in operation until 1946 and fell into disrepair after it was closed. In 1994 the dilapidated mill was donated to the Eichendorff Association because of its importance for the work of the poet Joseph von Eichendorff (see below) . He initiated the renovation of the mill and expanded it into the Upper Silesian Eichendorff culture and meeting center by 2007 . The renovation was carried out with funding from the Erika Simon Foundation .
The broken ring
Allegedly, the unhappy love for the miller's daughter prompted Joseph von Eichendorff , who lives in the neighboring village, to write the well-known poem The Broken Ring :
“In a cool valley
there is a mill wheel,
my love has disappeared, who
lived there.
She promised me loyalty,
gave me a ring,
she broke loyalty,
the ring broke in two.
I would like to travel
far into the world as a minstrel,
And sing my ways,
And go from house to house.
I would like to fly as a rider
Well into the bloody battle,
To lie around silent fires
In the field at dark night.
I hear the mill wheel go:
I don't know what I want -
I would like to die,
it would suddenly be quiet! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inauguration of the "Eichendorff Mill". (No longer available online.) Eichendorff Association, July 2007, archived from the original on June 5, 2008 ; Retrieved April 27, 2011 .
- ↑ https://www.erika-simon-stiftung.org/oberschlesien
- ↑ The Eichendorff mill. (No longer available online.) Eichendorff Association, September 2006, archived from the original on July 27, 2010 ; Retrieved April 27, 2011 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 18 ° 12 ′ 23.1 ″ E