Weingartsmühle

Weingartsmühle Geiselwind market Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 16 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	330 m
Postal code :	96160
Area code :	09556
Location of the Weingartsmühle (bold) in the Geiselwinder municipality

The Weingartsmühle (also Schlüsselfelder Straße 33 ) is a wasteland in the district of Geiselwind in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen.

Geographical location

The Weingartsmühle is relatively centrally located in the Geiselwinder municipality on the Reichen Ebrach . The municipality of Ebrach begins further to the north in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg , and the district of Kleinbirkach is closest to the mill. To the northeast is the Geiselwinder district of Füttersee , to the east the Hundsrangen and Hutzelmühle mills are lined up along the stream . In the south, the federal motorway 3 leads past the district. Geiselwind is to the west. The mill is the last remnant of the Weingarten settlement .

history

The name of the mill refers to the former settlement that was in the immediate vicinity of the mill. The facility was first mentioned in 1506. In an interest book of the princes of Schwarzenberg , meadows near the "Muel zu Weingarten" were mentioned. The Counts of Castell probably gave the mill to the princes as a fief. Around 1590, the plant appeared in the count's fief book next to Weingarten as "Weingarttsmühl". At that time the widow of the miller Georg Geyer was sitting there.

In 1595 Barthel Simmer can be traced as "Weingardts Müller". He probably bequeathed the mill to his son Hans Singer, who appears in the parish register of St. Burkard zu Geiselwind in 1610 . In the 17th century the millers changed frequently. Hans Stür, Wolf Stier, Lorenz Heymann, Daniel Rothmüller, Hans König, Johannes Dunckel and Fredrich Schmeer can be found in the sources until 1703. Everyone worked for the gentlemen von Schwarzenberg.

The Geiselwinder parish register lists Johann Konrad Martin as godfather for 1710. He was sitting on the "Obern Weingartsmühl". The location name had become important because another mill, the Untere Weingartsmühle , was built nearby . In 1723 the mill reappeared in the sources as "Wengertsmühl". In 1734 Johann Jakob Müller was at the Weingartsmühle.

The Krimmenau family lived in the property in the second half of the 18th century. A total of six generations of the family have been proven to own the mill. The millers Sebastian, Johann, Josef, Christoph, Jakob and Johann Krimmenau lived in the Weingartsmühle. The Weingartsmühle was an important watermill on the Reichen Ebrach for a long time and was demonstrably in operation until 1965.

At the end of the 19th century, a new family, Kaspar Stöckinger, took over the facility. In addition to the grinder , the Stöckinger set up a cutting unit in the mill and also used the power of the water for a sawmill . For this purpose, a 1.2 km long mill stream was dug, which had to be cleaned annually. After Kaspar, Georg Stöckinger took over the mill and continued to run it. Georg died in 1944.

In 1950 the miller Edmund Mauer , who came from the Rhön , married into the Stöckinger family. He continued to operate the agriculture, the sawmill and the grain mill. In 1965, the mill was stopped, the saw was dismantled in 1966. In 1970 a generator was installed, which ensured the Weingartsmühle an independent power supply until 1992 . Today the property is owned by Alfred Mauer and his wife Rita, née Kreußer.

Say

The headless rider

One of the millers at Weingartsmühle sent his maid and his servant in front of the house and then said to them: "Look straight ahead at the Krackenberg, can't you see anything up there on the mountain?" Both said no. The miller explained to them that a rider was riding up the mountain. Both rider and horse would be headless and ride this way in the moonlight. The maid and the servant couldn't see anything and so the miller led them both upstairs.

When they had reached the mountain and caught up with the rider, the miller suddenly said: “There, next to us, the rider is riding past on his horse.” But the maid and the servant again didn't recognize anything. But the miller recognized the figure because he was a so-called seven - month child . Another legend settles the headless rider in the area around the Krackenberg. He should go around the mountain at night and use a meadow as a path.

Weingart Castle

A long time ago a lock was to be found near the Krackenberg forest department in the direction of Geiselwind . It is said to have belonged to the gentlemen von Weingart. When the castle was long gone, some villagers dug for treasure. When they had been digging for a long time, they came upon a staircase. They rested one day and returned the next day to continue digging. They reached the forest, but everything that had been excavated had fallen back.

literature

• Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.
• Erwin Müller: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia. With landscape studies and history . Scheinfeld 2001.
• Wolf Dieter Ortmann: District of Scheinfeld (= historical place name book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, vol. 3) . Munich 1967. Local name part .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 212.
2. ^ Ortmann, Wolf Dieter: District of Scheinfeld . P. 213.
3. ↑ Müller, Erwin: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia . P. 72.
4. ↑ Müller, Erwin: Geiselwind in the middle of Franconia . P. 73.
5. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig (among others): Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald . P. 109.