Liesebach watermill
The Liesebach watermill was an overshot watermill in Räbke in the Helmstedt district , which was driven by the Schunter mill ditch . From 1236 until the end of operations in 1954, she worked mainly as a grain mill . Today, after a restoration, the water mill is looked after by a local support association. It lies in a Vierseithof on the edge of the village, who as artistic site since 1993 under monument stands. The mill is a station on the Lower Saxony Mill Road and of eight former watermills in Räbke is the only one that has survived.
history
The mill was built on the Mühlengraben, which the monks of the Helmstedt St. Ludgeri Monastery branched off from the Schunter at the beginning of the 13th century and led through the village on a contour line . Originally it was a hereditary interest mill of the monastery. Your waterwheel worked overshot because the watercourse within Räbke has a great gradient. The mill is shown on a map of Räbke and the surrounding area made as part of the Braunschweig General Land Survey of 1754. At the time, almost 570 people lived in the village's 84 residential buildings.
At first the mill only had one grinding gear . For a long time the mill system remained technically almost unchanged. It was not until 1864 that the miller Ernst Ludwig Raddecke carried out modernizations and provided two grinding cycles. In 1905, the miller Franz Liesebach acquired the mill and expanded it by installing two roller mills . In 1937 there were further modifications by a Helmstedt mill construction company, where the mill probably received an electric motor to support water power . Another renovation was carried out in 1948 by Richard Liesebach, the son of the miller who bought the mill in 1905. Another roller mill and two more electric motors from a mill from Melle were installed.
In the Räbker mill register from 1939, the mill was referred to as the Räbke rye and wheat mill and was in operation as a grinding mill . At the time it belonged to Minna Liesebach. The operator was her son Richard Liesebach. The mill processed 3 wispel flour a day, which was mainly delivered to Helmstedt and Magdeburg . In 1939 the mill was shut down because the operations manager was called up for military service.
In the early 1950s, the mill supplied major customers. The transport to bakeries in the vicinity was done by horse and cart. A wheat extract was produced under the name "Elmgold". When the mill technology showed signs of wear and tear, the mill was shut down in 1954. In 1996 Richard Liesebach was the last miller to die. His wife took care of the maintenance of the mill. The mill was extensively restored between 1998 and 2005 as part of the village renewal in Räbke. In 2008 she received a new water wheel , which is also used to generate electricity. Since then the mill has been functional again and can be visited. The roller mill and the stone grinding process can be operated for demonstration purposes. In 2009 the non-profit "Räbker Förderverein Mühle Liesebach" was founded, which maintains the mill and to which 190 people belong today (2019). In 2018, the association was awarded the “Prize for Monument Preservation of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation”.
Inflow of the mill ditch to the mill
Extension for the water wheel
The overshot water wheel of the mill
Outflow of the mill ditch from the mill
Wheat flour "Elmgold" from the mill
See also
literature
- Wilhelm Kleeberg: Räbke in: Niedersächsische Mühlengeschichte , Hanover, 1978, Schlütersche , p. 387
- Förderverein Räbker Chronik: (Ed.): The grinding mills Liesebach and Prinzhorn in: Räbke. Ein Dorf am Elmesrand , Helmstedt, 2005, pp. 317–323
Web links
- Räbker Förderverein Mühle Liesebach e. V.
- Description at the Lower Saxony Mühlenstraße
- Ulli Schwarze: Räbke the village of watermills thanks to Schunter at cremlingen-online from October 28, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ rye and wheat mill Räbke, Kreis Helmstedt, District Königslutter
- ↑ Mühle receives "Prize for Monument Preservation of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation 2018"
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 44.6 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 57.1 ″ E