Wippermühle
The Wippermühle is a former watermill in Wolfsburg on the border with the municipality of Rüsten in the district of Gifhorn , which ceased operations in 1936. The mill, first mentioned in a document in 1366, has existed in the historical landscape of the Vorsfelder Werder since the Middle Ages . It was driven by the Wipperaller as a drain from the former Wipperteich .
location
In earlier centuries the mill was located off the beaten track. The then military road Vorsfelde – Brome led past it several hundred meters to the west. Since the road was relocated around the 19th century, it has led through the middle of the courtyard of the mill, which consists of one building on each side of the street. Several buildings in the form of a small settlement can still be seen on maps from the 19th century. Today the country road from Wendschott to Brechtorf ensures enormous through traffic at the former water mill, which still belongs to Wolfsburg-Wendschott.
Surname
The name Wippermühle comes from the water that drives it, the Wipperaller . This name is made up of the river Aller below , into which it flows, and the word Wipper . Wipper comes from the Old Slavic word vepri for boar . The Slavic tribe of the Wends , who lived on the Vorsfeld Werder until the Middle Ages , often named place and waters from their own language.
Mill
The mill existed as a water mill since the Middle Ages , powered by the Wipperaller . The body of water is a brook that rises on the back of the Vorsfelder Werder near Hoitlingen. It still drains the large depression of the Wipperteich pond with a slight gradient and flows down to the Drömling . After about 11 km the Wipperaller flows into the Aller near Vorsfelde . Since the Wipperaller is a brook with only a little water, it can be assumed that the Wipperteich was dammed early in the Middle Ages. Its pond drainage enabled the mill to operate all year round, even in times of low rainfall. However, in 1841 the pond was drained.
history
The Wippermühle was first mentioned in a document in 1366 in a tax register of the city of Braunschweig , which reads: De mole up deme wipperbeke ghift VI.sol (The mill on the Wipperbach gives 6 schillings ). The villages of Vorsfelder Werder were currently paying taxes to the city of Braunschweig, which the Werder had received from Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg as a pledge.
The water mill collapsed in the Thirty Years' War , which also ravaged the Vorsfelder Werder with looting, devastation and famine. In 1654 she is mentioned again in a loan agreement. Six years after the end of the war, the mill owner Heinrich Wippermüller borrowed 30 thalers from the Vorsfeld citizen Hans Hoppe to rebuild and paid the interest by grazing on his meadows. In 1658 it was noted in the files that the miller paid 25 groschen of house interest , the property tax at that time , for his mill . From 1674 the miller was constantly warned to keep the Wipperaller plant free and in 1709 seriously warned for this. In 1850 the mill burned down and was rebuilt 50 meters further south at its current location. In 1936 the mill was shut down. Electrically powered mills were more profitable. After the end of the Second World War , former forced laborers killed the last miller near his mill in 1945 when they looted.
See also
literature
- Axel Hindemith: Brechtorfer Wippermühle no longer rattles in: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of October 12, 1987
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '24.7 " N , 10 ° 52' 21.2" E