Wolfsfurt mills

Wolfsfurt mills in Würselen

Location and history

Coordinates

50 ° 48 '39 " N , 6 ° 6' 23" E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '39 " N , 6 ° 6' 23" E

Location

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

City region Aachen

Würselen

Waters

worm

Built

before 1200

Shut down

1930

technology

use

Copper and grinding mill

Grinder

1 grind

drive

Watermill

water wheel

undershot

The Wolfsfurt mills were watermills on the Wurm in the city of Würselen in the North Rhine-Westphalian city region of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The Wolfsfurt mills were located at the Wurm, at Wolfsfurt 2, in the city of Würselen. The mill buildings were at a height of approx. 148 m above sea level . Above the Wolfsfurt mill are the Hochbrücker mills , below are the buildings of the Adams mill .

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is located south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level, the confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the city of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of 355.518 km ² .

history

The first mention of the mills comes from the year 1200, when a priest Wichmann gave half of his share of the Wolvesmolen to the church . In 1622 there was a renewed transfer of ownership of now three mills on Wolfsfurt, one of which was on the western bank and another mill was derelict. The mill on the eastern side was probably the oldest and from ancient times it was initially a grain mill . Old contracts show two copper mills in 1668 and one copper and one grinding mill in 1719 .

In 1813 the Wolfsfurt mills were acquired by the cloth manufacturer Wilhelm Kuetgens, who needed a drive for the textile machines . At the imperial meeting in Aachen in 1818 , the factory was visited by Emperor Franz I of Austria . The factory worked until 1830 when it was closed. Parts of the buildings are now used as residential purposes.

A third mill, which went under as early as 1673, was probably the Clotzer Mill, which also belonged to the Wolfsfurt Mill Association.