Windmill tower on the long wall

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Windmill tower from the southeast
View from the northwest with the remains of the pumping station visible

The windmill tower on the "Long Wall" is the tower shaft of a former windmill , which pumped brine onto the graduation tower , the "Long Wall", in Bad Nauheim . The windmill tower is one of the city's most striking landmarks.

history

The windmill was built around 1747 from the Taunus quartzite from the Johannisberg quarries and originally had a height of 20.6 meters. The rotating roof dome was covered with wooden shingles, and the windmill blades were covered with canvas. In Nauheim, under the direction of Chamber Council Jacob Sigismund Waitz von Eschen, one of the largest saltworks in Europe was built. Ten engines were available to pump the brine onto the up to 3,700-meter-long graduation buildings: seven water wheels , a treadmill for horses, the so-called horse art , as well as two powerful wind pumps , the tower on the long wall discussed here and the Waitz tower behind the thermal bath. The windmill blades had a span of 20 meters.

The drive of the pump in the tower to the long wall was as needed both on the vertical shaft of the windmills as well as a 886 meter from the water wheel in Schwalheim outgoing Art linkage moves. For almost 80 years, from 1747 to 1824, the windmill blades on the towers turned and transferred their energy to the brine pumps.

In autumn 1824 the wings on both towers shattered during a hurricane, and the tower caps were also covered. The saltworks inspector at the time, Wilhelmi, refused to carry out repairs due to the high costs. In 1826 the wings were dismantled and the resulting materials were used to build the new Schwalheimer artificial rods. The dome of the windmill tower on the "Long Wall" was replaced by a 6.30 meter high half-timbered building with a slate roof. Today the tower has a height of 26.6 meters. The Waitz Tower received a copper roof.

The windmill tower on the Long Wall is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

reactivation

In March 2013, the Wind and Water Art Association Bad Nauheim e. V. was founded with the aim of restoring the water wheels and windmills with which the pumping systems were originally operated. This also includes the windmill tower on the Long Wall. In March 2017, the association signed a contract with the city of Bad Nauheim to lease the tower for a period of 30 years in order to restore the windmill. The corresponding building application was submitted in 2018, which is based on a plan by windmill manufacturer Rüdiger Hagen from Wedemark in Lower Saxony . This is to be financed through donations.

literature

  • Dr. Weber: The parks and forests in Bad Nauheim . Self-published by the author, 1906, page 63
  • Erich Brücher: The Waitzsche Tower and the former windmills of the saline in (Bad) Nauheim . In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter , Volume 7/8 (1959), page 148
  • Alfred Martin: The Waitz'sche Thurm . In: Bad Nauheimer Jahrbuch , Volume VII (1928), page 57
  • Karl Christian Langsdorf: Instructions for salt works . 1784, page 286
  • Elsa Blöcher: Salt pans and salt trade in the Wetterau . Giessen 1931, p. 25f.
  • Roland Scharf: The Nauheim Saltworks , 1st edition. 2007, Magistrate of the City of Bad Nauheim (ed.), P. 8
  • Wilhelm Wagner: Chronicle of Bad Nauheim . Bad Nauheim 1897, self-published by the author, pages 44 and 45
  • Cultural monuments in Hessen, Wetteraukreis II (1999), page 135

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wind and Water Art Bad Nauheim e. V. (ed.): An industrial monument of the highest order. The restoration of the windmill on the Long Wall in Bad Nauheim . Bad Nauheim 2018 [brochure].

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '29.9 "  N , 8 ° 45' 0.2"  E