Weißenthalsmühle

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 41"  E

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The Weißenthalsmühle was one of three watermills in the district of Kirchberg , a district of Niedenstein in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . The main building of the mill, which was decommissioned in 1955, burned down in 2008 and had to be demolished afterwards. Today there is a restaurant with a large campsite in its place .

Geography and traffic

The mill stood on the Ems in its forest-lined valley at 217 m above sea level about 2.5 km northwest of Kirchberg, about 300 m south of the confluence of the Wiehoff into the Ems.

The approach today goes from Kirchberg on the county road K 82 (Kirchberg - Riede ) and after about 1 km northwest of Kirchberg turn right onto the municipal road to Weißenthalsmühle. The location can also be reached on foot via the farm road from the B 450 near Riede to the east, past the sports field and through the “Buchlücke” forest area.

history

The mill was built shortly before 1556 by Messrs Hund , the noble landlords of Kirchberg. About this, and because the dogs had given the mill four acres of land from the community, a dispute broke out between the village of Kirchberg and the dog, and the village complained to the landgrave's office in Kassel that the mill was demolished, among other things. In 1556 a comparison was made: the new mill stopped, but the land was divided between the dogs and the villagers.

The first Weissenthal miller known by name was Johann Wilhelm Hoffmeister, mentioned around 1690, whose widow Agnes died in 1742 at the age of 84. Hoffmeister's son-in-law Heinrich Zimmermann (~ 1683–1756) took over the business in 1731 and ran it until 1755. From 1773 Johann Michael Gippert (1738–1781) was miller of the Weißenthalmühle, in 1787 it was Heinrich Fennel, 1797 Conrad Spengler and 1835 Werner Spengler . This was finally followed by several generations of the Siegmann family, including Johs mentioned in 1880. Siegmann, and most recently Heinrich Siegmann after the First World War and then his son Friedhelm Siegmann, who shut down the mill in 1955. In the first half of the 20th century, the mill had a wooden, overshot water wheel with a diameter of 3.35 m and a width of 1.38 m, which, when the water level was good, produced up to 18 hp and drove two grinding cycles .

When the mill threatened to deteriorate after its shutdown, it was bought by Mr Wöhler from Kassel, father-in-law of the then Prime Minister of Hesse , Georg August Zinn , and he built a weekend house on the former milk cellar . A well was drilled 74 m deep to supply water , and in 1965 a turbine and an electric generator were installed in the mill house.

After Zinn's death in 1976, the property stood empty for about three years. Then it was bought by the Eddicks family, who set up a large campsite there , which was inaugurated in 1981, and ran a restaurant in the former mill house. In 2002 the property came to Volker Günther, who continued to run the campsite and restaurant. In the night of March 4th to 5th, 2008, the listed old mill building burned down completely; it had to be demolished in spring 2009 due to static damage. Then there were two more night fires in quick succession, in both cases by arson: in November 2010 the holiday home above the milk cellar was completely destroyed, and in the night of January 9-10, 2011, the former barn with the sanitary facilities of the Camping site totally destroyed.

After another change of ownership in 2014 and the construction of the restaurant building, the campsite and the excursion restaurant have been fully operational again since 2016.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Also Weißentalsmühle or Wiesenthalsmühle .
  2. ↑ Werner Guth: local devastation and other desert settlement sites near Niedenstein-Kirchberg. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History, Volume 109, 2004, pp. 51-70 (63)
  3. ↑ Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Cassel , No. 13, March 29, 1882, supplement (“Overview of the fire compensation granted in 1880”, p. 10)
  4. ↑ Restaurant burned to the ground , HNA , March 5, 2008 ( Memento of October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Weißenthalsmühle: Operator couple in custody, Kirchberg under shock , HNA , October 29, 2011
  6. ↑ Fire series in the Weißenthalsmühle: BGH rejects the revision , HNA , March 20, 2015
  7. ↑ Restaurant and camping site Weißenthalsmühle in new hands , HNA , March 17, 2016

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literature

  • Waldemar Küther (Ed.): Historisches Ortslexikon Fritzlar-Homberg , Elwert, Marburg, 1980, ISBN 3-7708-0679-4 , p. 326 f.
  • Rudolf Haarberg: Settlement study of the catchment area of ​​the Wiehoff and Matzoff in Niederhessen (Fritzlar-Homberg district) . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Volume 20, 1970, ISBN 978-3-921254-20-2 , p. 15
  • Arno Reinhardt (Ed.): 950 years of Kirchberg . Kirchberg, 1971, p. 84