Wolfner Mill
The Wolfner Mühle is a building designed as a board mill in the 16th century near Markersbach in the upper Mittweidatal , in which a holiday home was set up at the beginning of the 20th century. The group of houses belongs to the municipality of Crottendorf .
history
At the confluence of the Erbisbächel with the Große Mittweida , the Wolfner Mühle buildings are located in a small basin. The board mill, which was built in the 16th century to promote the Scheibenberg mining industry , belonged to the Obermittweida hammer mill from 1626 to 1799 . During the Thirty Years' War it was often a refuge for the inhabitants of the surrounding mountain villages. On March 12, 1640, the Wolfner mill was plundered by the Swedes and set on fire; in 1655 the successor building was back in operation. Around 1871 it was converted to a wood grinding shop , and in 1886 the Brückner family obtained the license to set up a pub. The half-timbered building burned down to the surrounding walls in 1909 and was then rebuilt as a solid structure until 1911.
Located on the tourist route from the Mittweida-Markersbach railway station through the upper Mittweida valley to the Fichtelberg, the Wolfner Mühle was converted by an innkeeper into a summer resort and a winter sports area after the mill went bankrupt . Due to a persistent illness, the innkeeper had to stop running Wolfner Mühle in 1924. The entire area, which was 84,000 m² and of which 1400 m² were then built on, was then acquired in 1926 by the Chemnitz parishes for their district association for female youth, the chairman of which was the Protestant pastor Reichel in Chemnitz. The whole building complex was originally supposed to be converted at the end according to plans by the Chemnitz architect Curt . The plan was to have two guest rooms for through traffic, a large kitchen with adjoining rooms, business, writing and reading rooms, a day room, a ballroom with a hall, a dining room, 32 single rooms with beds, two youth hostel rooms and two bathrooms. For cost reasons, the extensive renovation had to be kept to a minimum. From then on, the Wolfner Mühle was used as a Christian rest home for the Chemnitz parishes. In the 1930s there was also a post office in the Wolfner Mühle . From 1939 to 1945 the Wolfner Mühle was owned by Schubert & Salzer Maschinenfabrik , which it briefly used as a company holiday home. The building was confiscated in the Third Reich from May 1941 for the deportation of Kinderland . In the GDR, the Wolfner mill was used as a spa and FDGB home, which was also known as the FDGB convalescent home. The neighboring wood pulp and paper mill has been converted into a children's holiday camp.
In snowy winters, there was a natural toboggan run of 1,500 meters on the Hammerweg for sporting activities, and the meadow slopes in the immediate vicinity of Wolfner Mühle were available as a practice area for skiers and downhill skiers. Since the 1920s, modern low-pressure steam heating and box double windows, appropriate for the time, ensured that winter sports enthusiasts and those seeking relaxation, mainly from Chemnitz and the surrounding area, were able to stay in the Wolfner Mühle during the long winter months and made active use of the so-called winter cures at that time . In addition, after the renovation from 1926, there was a special storage room for winter sports equipment and a quick-drying room for soaked clothes and shoes in the Wolfner Mühle. Cold water pipes in every guest room and hot water taps on all floors increased the comfort of the guests. A 10 × 4 meter and an 11 × 4.50 meter terrace served as a beer garden and for recreational purposes in summer. Electricity was produced in an in-house waterworks before the Wolfner mill was connected to the local power supply network after the Second World War.
The Wolfner Mühle buildings have been empty since 1990 and are exposed to decay. Due to heavy snow loads, the old drying shed opposite the Wolfner Mühle collapsed on January 31, 2005. The roof fell in the middle of the thoroughfare to Crottendorf and had to be removed by the volunteer fire brigade . After two fires on July 31 and August 1, 2016, the ruins of Wolfner Mühle, which were in danger of collapsing, were partially demolished in the second half of the year.
geology
Not far from the Wolfner Mühle there used to be a quarry on the Metagrauwacken complex of the Wiesenthaler gneiss range.
Attractions
- Protected meadow not far from the mill.
- Nature trail from Wolfner Mühle to the Willibrunnen
literature
- Around the Wolfner Mühle. 30 nature photographs from the Saxon Ore Mountains , Dresden, Oscar Laube publishing house, 1928.
- Karsten Richter: "You will find peace and relaxation in the Wolfner Mühle" , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 37 (2015), No. 2, pp. 14-18. ISSN 0232-6078
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karsten Richter: "You will find peace and relaxation in the Wolfner Mühle" , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 37 (2015), Issue 2, pp. 14-18. ISSN 0232-6078
- ↑ The Wolfnermühle as a recreation and holiday home. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter. Supplement to the Obererzgebirgische Zeitung, No. 35 of September 11, 1927.
- ↑ Deployments in 2016 by the Crottendorf Volunteer Fire Brigade ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2017 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. , accessed January 30, 2017.
- ^ Matthias Wetzel: Last chapter for Wolfner Mühle , in: Freie Presse , local edition Annaberg-Buchholz from January 27, 2017, p. 9; Frank Nestler, Matthias Wetzel: Long story ends as tragedy , in: Freie Presse, local edition Schwarzenberg from February 18, 2017, p. 11.
- ↑ Nature trail on www.erzgebirge.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 10 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 19 ″ E