Weidmühle (Eckartsborn)
The Weidmühle is a mill on the Nidder . It is located in the Ortenberg district of Eckartsborn in the Wetterau district in Upper Hesse .
history
The first known mention of the mill is in the State Archives in Darmstadt . It is a hereditary letter from Landgrave Ludwig von Hessen for Hans Hasen and his wife from October 1, 1598 with the following text:
"By God's grace We Ludwig the Elder Landgrave, Grave zu Catzenelnpogen, Dietz, Ziegenhain and Nidda etc. do khunth and publicly confess to our heirs and descendants of Hesse, that we undoubtedly become Eckersporn and dear faithful, Hans Hasen, Ermegarten his married housewife and their heirs with a mill that Bach Muhl has graciously enfeoffed with a step to right inheritance, and hereby lend them the same in force of this letter, so that the married couple and their heirs thought the same mill from ours and We have and carry our heirs to the right inferiority, twee and use them to the best of their ability, also our and our heirs of it annually and one so every year on St. Martin's day in our Lisperkg winery, eight-eighth grains of Lisperger measure, good Pure march-schoner fruit and one and a half tornes for the new year and a carnival celebration and dinner, the same Muhl too Keep in good condition and improve without our previous knowledge, do not sell or otherwise utter and so the case with ours and ours inherit to them and their heirs shower death and bear or if the mill is uttered, received in turn and otherwise do and read about it everywhere should, as is the right of inheritance and custom, to the extent that rabbits and his wife have committed themselves to us and have given us their lapel letter. Everything honestly and without danger. In the deed we have undwritten with our own hands and have read our Secret Insiegell on it. Seen at Marburgk the first Octobris in the year one thousand five hundred ninety and eight. "
The file then only contains a few documents from the years 1601 to 1605. In these documents the mill is referred to as the "Bachmühle".
The next mention can be found at the State Archives again in 1826 on the occasion of the re-setting of the waterfall interest and other taxes. The Bachmühle was hereditary mill of the Landgrave of Hesse and was operated as a double system with two water wheels by Johann Heinrich Geller and Ernst Schepp. The name Weidmühle did not appear until around 1850. It was therefore necessary to determine whether, on the one hand, the Bachmühle and the Weidmühle are identical, and on the other hand, to which of the two millers named in 1826 the ownership of the current engine can be traced back.
Since there were no other mills in the Eckartsborn district and the documents from 1598 to 1605 as well as from 1826 point to the Landgrave of Hesse as hereditary lord, the question should be answered in the affirmative.
From the documents of the community and the parish it emerges that the miller Johann Heinrich Geller died in 1833, his daughter married Johannes Herth. As the successor to Ernst Schepp, who died in 1841, the 1906 file register of the Friedberg Water Management Office shows the son Konrad Schepp. The two millers Herth and Schepp received the concession in 1851 to set up a second grinding mill. In 1852, according to the same register, the Scheppsche Mühle was sold to Friedrich Kraus. On January 11, 1858, he received permission to build a new water wheel.
However, the miller Kraus could not stay on the mill for long. This results from a photocopy in the mortgage book of the municipality of Eckartsborn. The property was already heavily in debt in 1856 and was bought by Georg Heinrich Ringshausen a creditor in 1860 . Together with Karl Herth, he is also named in the file register as the owner of the Weidmühle.
While the Geller-Herthsche Mühle was closed at the end of the 19th century, Georg Heinrich Ringshausen continued to run the engine. His daughter Wilhelmine, born in Bellmuth in 1856, married on October 5, 1873 with August Schuchmann I, who later took over the mill.
In an old account book of the descendants of Ernst and Konrad Schepp, it is clear that waterfall interest payments were made between 1821 and 1829. The interest , which later amounted to 5.14 marks, was redeemed in cash around 1902.
From these explanations it can be seen that the Weidmühle is definitely identical to the landgrave's hereditary mill 'Bachmühle', which has existed legally since 1800, but probably also with the mill of the same name named and lent out in 1598, and that the property and the right of use of the current engine owner are from which Müller Ernst Schepp derives.
A calibration stake was set at the Weidmühle on July 31, 1878 , but due to a lack of further information, it cannot be found.
In 1946 the Weidmühle's waterwheel was destroyed and replaced by a turbine in 1950 , which operated the mill with the support of an electric motor until 1990. A new turbine was then installed to generate electricity.
Web links
- Weidmühle, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '59.2 " N , 9 ° 4' 19.9" E