Prieschka water mill
The former Prieschka water mill was located in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg , near the Alte Röder , a former river of the Black Elster .
history
The mill estate in Prieschka, which was a forerunner of the later manor, was built in 1520. But even before this date there should have been a mill in the village. From 1525 it belonged to the von Schleinitz noble family from Meissen . At that time this was located in the neighboring Saathain and other places in the area. Later owners were the Köckritze , a noble family who had lived in the area since the late Middle Ages . He was eventually followed by the Maltese heirs . As recorded in the Oeder - Zimmermann map around 1600, Sigismund von Weltitz was resident here at that time. In 1608, however, the mill and the associated tavern had to be handed over to the Saxon Elector Christian II due to high debts and it was administered as chamber property by the Liebenwerda office.
In 1614 the mill was rebuilt, the existing mill ditch at the exit of the village on the right, from the mill residential building to the mouth of the pond ditch, expanded and the road passage to the mill expanded. In order to keep the water level in the Mühlgraben at the required height, a weir was built into the Alte Röder near the current mouth of the pond. The newly built mill survived the Thirty Years War, but burned down completely overnight due to arson in 1654. In 1676 forest and game master Friedrich Sieber bought the mill. Before that, it had been handed over by the sovereign to David Kupfer, to whom they owed 540 thalers of war pay. After Sieber's death it came into the possession of Gottfried von Kirchbach and was passed on from him to Hans Karl von Kirchbach . In 1746 the Prieschka mill was finally sold to the Gröditzer miller Johann Rohrbach. At that time, the mill had three grinding courses and one course for pounding millet. A cutting mill was also in operation. The miller was liable to pay taxes on the manor that was created in 1698 and had to provide it with a large number of free services. In addition, the manor rule reserved the right of first refusal, which they only waived if the mill was passed on to the miller's children or siblings.
After the mill remained in the possession of the Rohrbach family and their relatives for a long time, it finally came to Moritz Flössig and, according to an article in the local history series “Die Schwarze Elster” from 1909, was owned by his son Karl Flössig at the beginning of the twentieth century . During the First World War , the estuary of the Großer Röder, which had used the old river of the Black Elster flowing past the mill and flowed at Prieschka, was moved back to Würdenhain since the river regulations of the Elster and the lower reaches of the Röder had been carried out in the middle of the nineteenth century . Since the old Röder now lacked flow speed, the mill owner received compensation of 30,000 marks from the administrative district. An oil motor was installed in order to keep the mill in Prieschka going. In the course of this, the mill was also modernized. This later passed to Flössig's son-in-law Kurt Maidorn, who was mayor of the town from 1934 to 1945 during the Nazi era . In the years of the Second World War , the mill operation was switched to electrical energy due to a lack of oil. Maidorn fled to West Berlin in 1948 because he was threatened with arrest in the Soviet zone of occupation . His abandoned wife and son followed him in 1953.
The mill initially became the legal entity of the Prieschka municipality, which leased the business. From 1961 it was managed by the LPG "Elstergrund", which, however, was merged into VEG Prieschka in 1964 . The mill was converted and was used to produce compound feed for cattle and pigs.
In the end, Erhart Schiffner was the last miller in Prieschka. He worked there from 1971 to 1991. With the reunification and reprivatisation of the estate in 1991, the mill in Prieschka was finally closed. Since then it has been privately owned and served as a warehouse.
It was finally demolished in 2013. Since then, the previous location can be recognized primarily by the narrowing of the street that still exists.
Sources and evidence
- Albert Voegler: "Rittergut und Mühle Prieschka" in "Die Schwarze Elster", No. 103, 1909
- Manfred Woitzik: “First come - first served” a cultural history of mills in the Elbe-Elster district . Ed .: Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster District. Herzberg, S. 132 to 133 .
- Rene Lindner: "Prieschka district" in "Chronicle of the City of Liebenwerda". Ed .: Association for City Marketing and Business Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, ISBN 3-7245-1420-4 , p. 266/267 .
- The Prieschkaer Mühle on the Prieschka website
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ' N , 13 ° 26' E