Meadow Mill (Marth)

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Meadow mill with emergency protection, view from the north
Meadow mill in the 1920s
Wiesenmühle in front of the new wooden strip factory

The meadow mill is an abandoned mill, now a ruined house in the municipality of Marth in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia . The building, which has already been registered for demolition , was "rescued" by a bat colony occupied there, the site was officially declared a biotope and protected as an individual object according to the European Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive (FFH). The care of the house was entrusted to an employee from the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park .

location

The three-storey, eaves-standing building of the former Wiesenmühle is located directly on Bundesstrasse 80 , east of Arenshausen and southeast of Marth on the east bank of the Leine .

history

The meadow mill was built before 1466, in a fief description of the place there was the note Item der müller in der Weßen mullen . This mill was not named again until 1845, now a grinding and oil mill was in operation there. In 1895 the tenant Thiele was attacked by robbers. The mill had become unprofitable in the small town, and attempts were made to replace it with a mechanical weaving mill, but this use was short-lived. The meadow mill was then expanded to become the Funke & Habermann wood strip factory and reached its greatest expansion in the 1920s. After a first fire, the factory was rebuilt and closed after another fire. The Marth wood strip factory was mentioned in the local chronicle as the last commercial use of the mill. The factory also employed auxiliary and seasonal workers, making it the most important local employer. The factory owner Julius Pile was attacked and killed on December 12, 1927, and his body was found in the ditch not far from the mill. The buildings of the Wiesenmühle were occupied from October 1945 to January 1946 as border camp III of the nearby border crossing towards camp Friedland with several hundred returnees and war refugees.

A major fire ruined the outbuildings and in 1982 the factory buildings were demolished. The main building was considered to be habitable, was spared demolition and was inhabited by private individuals. From the turn of the century , the apartments were gradually used by young people, e. T. students from Göttingen , rented, who lived there in several shared apartments until around the year 2000. However, no new buyers or tenants were found afterwards. The building fell into disrepair due to neglected maintenance. The owner (or the municipality?) Applied for the ruin to be torn down, during the inspection by the building supervisory authority the bat population found in the attic was found to be worthy of protection, the demolition application therefore failed and the municipality referred to the ongoing costs of securing the property, as this was directly related buildings facing the street are dangerous. In this situation, the Free State of Thuringia took over the ruins to secure the location of the bat colony. In the building there was an already known significant bat population with up to 1000 specimens of the species great mouse- eared bat . The aim of the lease was to secure the building and to preserve the bat population, which had temporarily left the nursery around 2010 , probably due to construction work on the adjacent federal highway 80.

literature

  • Erhard Müller: The mills in the district of Heiligenstadt . Codier, Heiligenstadt 1992, p. 29, 32 .
  • Marth community (ed.): 750 years of Marth 1254–2004 . o. O. 2004, p. 31 .
  • Volker Große, Klaus Herzberg: Marth, "Wiesenmühle" . In: Maik Pinkert (Ed.): Mühlen im Obereichsfeld. A compendium . Eichsfeld-Verlag, Heiligenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935782-13-5 , p. 262 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Bats in the Wiesenmühle - accessed on the Internet on September 9, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Fabian Klaus: Bats emigrated to the Meadow Mill Marth. Thüringische Landeszeitung, August 17, 2011, accessed on September 10, 2012 : “The bat expert refrains from providing information on the whereabouts of the meadow mill bats, but also confirms that traces have been found. The animals were no longer detected in the meadow mill and might have found a better place. But that doesn't mean they won't return at some point. For example, if a fault of any kind occurs at the new location. "
  3. ↑ Thomas Müller, Maik Pinkert: End of the war and a new beginning in the Eichsfeld district 1945/1946 Eichsfeld Verlag Heiligenstadt 2003, page 91 ff.
  4. ↑ Volker Große, Klaus Herzberg: Marth, "Wiesenmühle" . In: Maik Pinkert (Ed.): Mühlen im Obereichsfeld. A compendium . Eichsfeld-Verlag, Heiligenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935782-13-5 , p. 262 .
  5. ↑ A short report on the failed demolition was even broadcast in the Thuringia Journal .

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 40 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 53"  E