Holzdorf watermill
A watermill in Holzdorf an der Kremitz was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . District Chief Christian Vitzthum of Eckstädt procured in the Official Schweinitz an inspection of the mill site by state water master builder Michael Klemm, who should decide whether the mill site, a new water mill could be built without inflicting the surrounding land from flooding damage on 21 July 1695th
history
According to the report of the state water engineer, a water mill with two water wheels was operated in Holzdorf . The Kremitz had a gradient of about half a cubit above the mill , but the gradient could be increased by one and three quarters of a cubit due to the proximity to the Black Elster below the mill. There was also a mill pond and a mill ditch at the Holzdorf mill site. He interprets an old stake on the Kremitz as a mill stake . Klemm confirms the possibility of rebuilding the watermill, but the mill operations will have to cease during dry summers and hard winters.
owner
In 1711 David Fischer applied to the governor in Schweinitz to build the new Holzdorfer mill. Nothing is known about an answer from the office, but the new building did not take place until 1729 with Johann Gottfried Pinkert. In 1750 Johann Herrmann Strauch owned the mill, after which Carl Jacob Lehmann and Gottlob Richter were named. The latter sold the mill to Gottlob August Steinhardt after the death of his son, who drowned in the reservoir at the age of 17. After his death on January 15, 1859, his son Gustav Ringwald Steinhardt took over the business. After his death on September 11, 1876, his widow continued the business and later married the miller Eduard Kiel, who ran the mill until his death on April 18, 1909. Afterwards his son-in-law Karl Theodor Georg Kuhrmann took over the mill, who had learned the miller's trade from his father-in-law. In 1922, master miller Herrmann Kutter bought the water mill. His son Paul Willi Kutter later took over the site, which was converted into a motor mill.
Others
In 1929 the mill burned down and was rebuilt with a motor as a drive. The establishment of an LPG in Holzdorf meant the end of the mill. Today the mill building has been converted into a residential building.
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ a b Eberhard Förster, Annaburger Hefte, Mühlen between Elbe and Schwarzer Elster, 2006
- ^ Official inheritance book of the Lochau office, State Archives Magdeburg, Wernigerode branch
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 48 ″ E