Wersbacher Mill

Wersbacher Mill City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	159 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Area code :	02174
Location of Wersbacher Mühle in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

The Wersbacher Mühle is an abandoned grain mill and is the current location of the Wersbach Clinic, a clinic for psychosomatics, psychiatry and psychotherapy with the specialist departments for dermatology and TCM in Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

The Wersbacher Mühle is located south of Witzhelden am Wersbach (also called Vierschelsbach), which forms the city limits to Burscheid . Neighboring towns are Wersbach , Dorffeld , Nüsenhöfen , Bern , Neuenhof , Meie , Feld , Höhscheid , Windfoche and Tyrol on Leichlinger and Berringhausen , Benninghausen , Kippekoven , Paffenlöh and Oberwietsche in the Burscheider urban area.

history

The Wersbacher mill was first mentioned in 1496 as a grain mill, made in the 17th and 18th centuries answers in terms of ownership and taxes to the Kellnerei of Burg . So it says in the burger stock book from 1690:

"There is also a MÜHLE IN KIRSPEL WITZHELDEN, AMT MISELOHE , called DIE WERSBACHER MÜHLE, is peculiar to Hennrichen Wersbach, has no compulsion and gives" knowledge "of the water flow annually to Martini in the Burg winery a Malter Roggen Burgmaßen."

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the mill was owned by the Busch family and their heirs. In the 18th century the mill belonged to the parish Witzhelden in the Bergisch Amt Miselohe . The card Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the mill under the simple name mühl . The topographical record of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first record from 1844 record the place as Weiersbach M. and Wersbach M.

In 1815/16 there were 11 people living in the village. In 1832 Wersbach Mühle belonged to the parish Witzhelden of the Burscheid mayor . The place, which was categorized as a grain mill according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential building, a mill and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were six people living in the village, one of which was Catholic and five were Protestant.

In 1828, in a tax dispute, the mill was described by the owner Wilhelm Schmitz as a system with an overshot water wheel and two grinding stages , one for grain and one for wheat. It had two mill ponds, which were fed by the Wersbach and the Altenbach . Due to the low flow rate of the streams, only one of the two grinding courses could be operated even under good conditions and only 1½ to 2 hours a day.

Due to the municipal code for the Rhine province, the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the Burscheid mayor and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . The mill, which was sold to the Hager couple in 1842, burned down in 1863. While the main building under cover suffered only minor damage, a shed burned down completely. In 1872 the owner Hager failed in the attempt to lease the mill and its lands and so he finally sold it on April 5, 1890 for 24,000 marks to Albert Richartz, owner of the Thielenmühle in Burscheid.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, a house with ten residents is given. In 1895 the place had a house with seven residents, in 1905 one house and six residents.

In 1903 Albert Richartz built a machine house to generate electricity and supplied the Höhendorf Witzhelden with electrical energy until 1909 . In 1940 the heir sells the plant to August Weltersbach from Eichen , who was officially obliged to continue operating the mill and the affiliated bakery. In 1941 he also applied for a concession for an alcohol-free restaurant, which was not opened due to the war. The remoteness of the mill was used during the Second World War by the then Opladen City Archives , which moved the historically valuable Oligschläger collection there. In the 1950s, August Weltersbach realized his plans and set up a coffee shop that quickly became a popular excursion destination in the region.

On October 2, 1974, the mill burned down to the ground. On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Witzhelden was incorporated into Leichlingen with Wersbacher Mühle. The ruins of the fire fell into disrepair by 1984, when the construction of a new hotel and apartment block with condominiums was approved. After the fire ruin was torn down, a new floor slab and foundation walls were erected, and construction work then stopped. In 1992 the ruins were removed and the foundation stone was laid for the construction of a skin clinic, which started operations in 1995. After the change of ownership and concept, the clinic building now houses a private, open specialist clinic for psychosomatic medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy .

A hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus ), which was placed under protection as a natural monument , stood by the Wersbacher Mühle until 2013 . After fire damage, the approximately 260-340 year old tree, which was approximately 6.4 meters in circumference and approximately 10 meters high, had to be felled.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wersbach Clinic
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Wersbach on www.witzhelden-web.de. Retrieved February 22, 2016 . 
3. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. 1836.
4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1897, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .
7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 298 .
8. ↑ Hornbeam at the Wersbacher Mühle in the tree register of www.baumkunde.de. Retrieved April 12, 2015 .