Weidachsmühle (Kempten)

Weidachsmühle City of Kempten (Allgäu) Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	670 m above sea level NN
Residents :	7  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	1972
Postal code :	87437
Area code :	0831
Location of Weidachsmühle in Kempten (Allgäu)
Weidachsmühle from the east (2003)

Weidachsmühle consists of a grain mill, a sawmill, a farm and two residential buildings. The milling operation was stopped in 1959, until the end of the 1970s the mill was still used for the production of animal feed. The sawmill has only been operated as a sideline since the mid-1980s. Agriculture was switched from dairy farming to horse keeping in the early 1970s. The wasteland was incorporated into Kempten (Allgäu) in 1972 and is located on the northern edge of the city. Before that, the Weidachsmühle belonged to the rural community of Sankt Mang .

The mill belonged to Leuba's main team . In 1811 this area was added to the city of Kempten. With the municipal edict of 1818, the area became part of the new municipality of Sankt Mang , which was incorporated into Kempten in 1972.

The last census on May 25, 1987 counted seven residents in two buildings with living space and two apartments. With less than three buildings with living space, the community part was typified as a wasteland .

location

The Weidachsmühle is 670 m above sea level. M. on the right of the Iller on the lower reaches of the Leubas on the northern outskirts of Kempten. It is one of four water mills that use the hydropower of the small tributary of the Iller.

The Leubas stream rises near Betzigau and flows into the Iller near the Hirschdorf district of Kempten .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1440 as "Mühle an der Leubas" and in 1451 as "Mühle zum Luibas im Widach". During the Peasants 'War in 1525, the farmers ' line of defense was directly above the Weidachsmühle. A year later, in 1526, the Memmingen contract was co-signed by a Baltus Sigß Tyber from the "Weydach". H. Laubenberg zu Wagegg mentioned the Weidachsmühle on the occasion of the award of justice for hammer mill and grinding mill operation to a Stielingser for the years 1551 to 1553. A “Mayr im Weydach” was assessed in addition to the Turkish tax levied by the prince monastery of Kempten in 1593 .

In 1738 a "Michael Mayr, Müller im Weidach" is mentioned in a country table as the owner of a farm with grinding and sawmill justice. In 1740 the concessions of the Weidachsmühle and the lower Betzigauer Mühle were renewed. Only these were authorized to grind grain for the Lenzfried monasteries. In 1789 Magnus Hemmerle acquired the Weidachsmühle, which belonged to the Leubas main team, from an owner named Mayer. It is currently owned by the Hemmerle family.

According to the house statistics around 1800, the only property at that time (Mühl-Gut) had an area of ​​99.69 days' work or 33.97 hectares .

In 1890 a house brewery was set up in the Weidachsmühle. In 1898 it was called the wheat beer brewery Xaver Hemmerle, in 1915 Alois Hemmerle and in 1956 the house brewery Josef Hemmerle.

After the death of Alois Hemmerle (1867-1934) it came in 1938, the mill and farm were divided between two of his six sons. Three years later the mill partially burned down, later it was rebuilt.

In 1972 the Weidachsmühle was incorporated into the independent city of Kempten with the previously independent municipality of Sankt Mang .

On April 30, 1974 at around 6:40 a.m., the 30-meter-long central section of the Leubastal Bridge, which was under construction, fell 15 meters into the Leubas. At the time of the collapse, 22 people were busy with concreting work on and around the bridge.

The accident claimed 9 deaths. The bridge was built during the expansion of the B 19 to the A 7 and is located 300 m east of the Weidachsmühle.

In 1819 the Weidachsmühle had 9 residents, in 1860 there were 15, in 1875 16, at the turn of the century 1900 14. In 1925 10 residents were registered. At the beginning of the Second World War 13 people lived there. In 1954 the wasteland had 22 residents, 9 of whom were housed expellees and forced resettlers. In 2012 the wasteland consisted of 2 properties belonging to the Hemmerle family.

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  Weidachsmühle around 1900

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  Ice hut in 1910, there were blocks of ice for the brewery that were cut out of the pond in winter.

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  Collapsed Leubas Bridge in April 1974

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  Weidachsmühle weir

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  Bridge over the Leubas (around 1990)

technology

The water volume of the Leubas is very weather dependent and averages 2200 m³ per hour. Until 1949 the mill and sawmill were operated with water wheels. The height of fall was about five meters. The sawmill was powered by an overshot water wheel four meters in diameter. Three other undershot water wheels drove millstones and other facilities of the grain mill.

In 1904 electricity was introduced in the Weidachsmühle. The first generator was powered by the last water wheel and produced 110 volt direct current. The changeover to 220-volt alternating current took place later, and from 1950 to 380-volt three-phase current, powered by turbines. The power plant ran in island operation until 1990, since then it has been connected to the network of the Allgäu overland plant. In 1950 the water wheels were replaced by two Francis turbines from the Geiselbrecht company, Kempten. As part of this change, the Mühlbach was moved from the weir to the Weidachsmühle to higher ground. This enabled the gradient to be increased to seven meters. The rated output of the turbines is 56 hp. In 1959 the old weir, which was still made of wood, was replaced by a concrete structure.

The mill and sawmill are driven by transmission belts. The flour mill was almost completely refurbished after the fire in 1941, two of the four millstones were replaced by roller mills. The capacity of the mill was 24 tons per day. In 1959, the grinding operation was stopped after the last apprentice received his journeyman's certificate. The capacity was no longer sufficient for a business that would support its existence. At that time there were mills in Germany with an output of 24,000 tons per day.

literature

• Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 476.
• Ralf Lienert: Sankt Mang looks. History of the community 1818–1972: An inventory 30 years after the municipal area reform. Kempten 2002, ISBN 978-3-936208-27-6 .

Web links

Commons : Weidachsmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 362.
2. ^ Peter Blickle: Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Kempten. Munich 1968 , p. 362
3. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 386 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 476f.
5. ^ Peter Blickle: Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Kempten. Munich 1968 , p. 283