Host mill

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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '22 "  N , 7 ° 13' 43"  E In Wermelskirchen , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , east of the city center, the Wirtsmühle is now just a street name. The street runs in a north-south direction from Beethovenstraße to Josef-Haydn-Straße.

history

The location on the slope and the lack of a larger body of water exclude a water mill. A windmill is not mentioned or seen in any of the old documents, city histories and cityscapes. All mills required a sovereign license, which is recorded in the traditional registers. The host's mill is not mentioned there. But the mill could have been the so-called Rossmühle . From around 1770 onwards, a Rossmühle in Wermelskirchen is explicitly mentioned in the Solingen-Burg winery accounts without the name of the host. A man by the name of Wirts is mentioned in the Schumacher family's records as early as 1726 as living on the mill. As early as 1691, a Theis Jäger, on the Mühlen, 26 years old, was named as dead in the church books of Wermelskirchen.

The map by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715 shows the name ad Mühl . The Wiebeking card from 1789 still writes about the Mühl . In the map of LeCoq 1805 the mill or the host's mill is missing. Only the map of the geodesist Karl von Müffling from 1824-25 mentions a Wirthsmühle . In the original cadastral map from 1828–30 it is then clearly called Wirtsmühle .

Wirtsmühle in Wermelskirchen around 1910
Detail of an oil painting from the landlord's mill around 1940

In all lists of people before 1700, the district is only mentioned as zur Mühle . In the accounts of the mayor Mathias Schmidt from 1726, a Hindrich Wirth is mentioned for the first time. In 1730, Wirth participated in the hereditary homage and in 1742 his daughter Catharina married Johann Arnold vom Stein.

In 1798, Johann Peter vom Stein from the landlord's mill is head of the village honors . Together with the other rulers, he borrows 5000 thalers from Peter Johann Platte zur Großeledder for war costs . The money comes from the Eidam des Platte, Philipp Heinrich Pastor from Aachen. Repayment was still being disputed in court in 1820. The vom Stein family has been associated with the Wirtsmühle for several generations either as lenders or as owners of church seats in the Reformed Church or as lay judges at the Wermelskirchen court. In 1901 the vom Stein family sold large estates to Adolf Flöring .

A second estate becomes judiciary in 1787. Johann Peter Jäger and his wife Maria Brunsberg lend 600 thalers to their property at the Wirtsmühle. The Jäger family on the mill is mentioned in the church books as early as 1691 as living at the mill. In 1788 and 1790, Johann Brunsberg lends 100 thalers and 35 thalers, respectively, to his estate at the Wirtsmühle. In 1791 he lent another 400 thalers for a house he had bought in the village of Wermelskirchen and for the Wirtsmühle estate.

Literature and Sources

  • Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, Jülich-Berg III, Renteien, Solingen-Burg winery 1ff
  • F. Hindrichs: A castle and three noble houses , Cologne and Opladen 1965 (in it e.g. the burger stock book from 1692)
  • W. Lappe: Paths and streets around and in Wermelskirchen , Wermelskirchen 1991
  • NJ Breidenbach: Families, property and taxes in Wermelskirchen, Dabringhausen and Dhünn, 1666 to 1991 , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2003, ISBN 3-980-2801-8-7
  • NJ Breidenbach: The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid from 1632 to 1812. Texts and reports from the court minutes and official files of Bornefeld-Hückeswagen , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2004, ISBN 3-980-2801-5-2
  • Landesarchiv NRW: Holdings JB III, Bornefeld winery; FA Schumacher, accounts of Math. Schmidt
  • NJ Breidenbach: Mysterious "mills" in Wermelskirchen - the Buddemühle and Wirtsmühle on the trail - names and interpretations . In: Rhein.-Berg. Calendar 2015