Wickrathberger Mill

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Wickrathberger Mill

The Wickrathberger Mühle

The Wickrathberger Mühle

Location and history
Wickrathberger Mühle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wickrathberger Mill
Coordinates 51 ° 6 '49 "  N , 6 ° 24' 39"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '49 "  N , 6 ° 24' 39"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Waters Niers
Built 1720
Shut down 1952
technology
use Oil and grain mill
Grinder 3 grinding courses
drive 1 water wheel , from 1900 Francis turbine , from 1945 electric drive
water wheel undershot

The Wickrathberger Mühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Wickrathberg in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Wickrathberger Mühle is located on the right side of the Niers, at Niersstrasse 31, in the Mönchengladbach district of Wickrathberg. Above was the Kappelsmühle , below the Wickrath Castle Mill . The area on which the mill building stands is at a height of approx. 63 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ) 286 in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km 2 up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Wickrathberger Mühle, which was also called Berger Mühle, was built in 1720 as an oil mill . The stately mill building belonged to the Lords of Quadt on Wickrath . The mill was later converted into a flour mill with four grinding courses and operated at times as a ban mill. In 1812 the mill went into private ownership. A Francis turbine was installed around 1900 . The mill was severely damaged in bombing raids in 1943 and the Niers Bridge was blown up in 1945, but it was able to resume operation with an electric motor . In 1952 the mill was stopped. The mill building now serves as a residential building.

gallery

  • The house

  • The course of the Niers near the mill

  • Niersbrücke near the mill

  • Courtyard view

  • Millstones decorate the courtyard

  • Wickrathberg on the new map from 1912

  • The location of Wickrathberg on the original cadastral map from 1846

  • Wickrathberg on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

Monument entry

Former watermill in Wickrathberg, entry as a memorial on December 4, 1984

The property at Niersstraße 31 is located in the Wickrathberg district in the form of a closed courtyard near the Niers. The baroque house is built on two floors in brick with a gable roof. The commercial access is provided with a round arch, left and right four windows. Year of construction 17th - 18th century. Ten window axes along the street on the 1st floor.

literature

  • Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , page 480.
  • Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills 1st edition November 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pages 32-35, 84-85.

Web links

Commons : Wickrathberger Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lanuv.nrw.de
  4. ↑ http://www.Niersverband.de/