Hanshagen watermill
The Hanshagen watermill is located in Hanshagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It served the University of Greifswald as a paper mill until the middle of the 19th century .
history
At the end of the 15th century, the Krummin monastery on Usedom bought Hanshagen. Margaretha Owstin , the prioress of the monastery, gave the miller Nikolaus (Klawes) Dreyer permission to build a water mill on the Hanshäger Bach in 1524 . In addition, he was supported by the monastery with building materials and food for the construction workers and had to deliver five Drömt flour to the monastery every year . In 1528 the contract with Dreyer's son Joachim was renewed.
In the second half of the 17th century, the water mill came into the possession of the secretary and later councilor in Swedish-Pomerania, Jacob Stypmann, who had to cede it to the University of Greifswald in exchange for a severance payment due to a resolution by Queen Christina in 1654. The village of Hanshagen belonged to the property of the university since the donation to Duke Bogislaw XIV . At that time the mill had already been converted to produce paper from rags . In the 18th century the mill was one of the privileged few to whom the royal government granted the right to buy rags in decrees of 1725, 1751 and 1750.
In the middle of the 19th century, paper production from rags was no longer worthwhile because of the competition from cellulose. In 1855 the Hanshäger mill was converted again to produce grain flour. In 1952 the grinding operation was stopped and the building served as a restaurant until the 1990s. The listed complex was unused for many years, and various initiatives to re-use it remained unsuccessful. The mill association Wassermühle Hanshagen e. V. has made a significant contribution to maintaining the facility since 1995.
In October 2010 Greifswald-based Schilling Invest GmbH & Co. KG began the fundamental renovation and restoration of the area. The foundation stone for an additional new building was laid in April 2011. The farm shop was opened on October 15, 2011, and the restaurant followed on November 17 of the same year. On the occasion of the German Milling Day 2012, the mill was able to be put back into operation on May 28, 2012 after 60 years. In addition to the watermill itself, the complex houses a restaurant, accommodation, the farm shop, a game receiving and processing point, a bakery and an outdoor area with a beer garden and play facilities.
investment
Today's mill building was erected between 1798 and 1800 as a half -timbered brick building on a high field stone base . The half-hip roof is interrupted on both sides of the eaves by two continuous pike dormers . The pent-up water passes the building in the middle from south to north, where it propelled an overshot waterwheel. Most of the technology in the grinder has been preserved.
To the east, on the gable side, is the former residential building, which was built in 1750 as a paper mill on the foundations of an older building. It has a massive basement, the upper floor and the rear are made of brick framework. The hipped roof has a roof pike on each side. The eastern end is a single-storey brick building with pilaster strips and a pitched roof with tar paper.
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, Dietze, Anklam 1868. pp. 371 f. ( Digitized version )
- Greifswald and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 14). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968, p. 184.
Web links
- Literature about Wassermühle Hanshagen in the state bibliography MV
- www.wassermuehle-hanshagen.de
- Watermill Hanshagen at Zwillingswindmuehlen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ wassermuehle-hanshagen.de: Information on the new building from October 2010
Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 46.2 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 49 ″ E