Zoppenbroich Mill

Zoppenbroich Mill
Former location of the Zoppenbroich mill
Location and history
Coordinates	51 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 9 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 9 ″  E
Location	Germany  North Rhine-Westphalia City of Mönchengladbach Rheydt
Waters	Niers
Built	1490 first documented mention
Shut down	1902
technology
use	Oil mill and flour mill
Grinder	1 grind , 1 oil press
drive	water wheel
water wheel	undershot

The Zoppenbroicher Mühle was a water mill with an undershot water wheel on the upper reaches of the Niers in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt in the administrative district of Düsseldorf .

geography

The Zoppenbroicher mill was located on the right side of the Niers, in Zoppenbroich , in the Mönchengladbach district of Rheydt. Above was the Eickesmühle , below the Rheydt Castle Mill . The area on which the mill building stood is at a height of approx. 51 m above sea ​​level .

Waters

The Niers (GEWKZ 286) in its old river bed supplied numerous mills with water for centuries until the river was straightened . The Niers rises in Kuckum , a district of the city of Erkelenz . The Niers has a total length of 117.668 km and a total catchment area of ​​1,380.630 km ² up to its confluence with the Meuse near Gennep (Netherlands) . The source is 73  m above sea level. NN , the mouth at 9  m above sea level. NN . The Niersverband is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water .

history

The Zoppenbroich mill, located directly at the Zoppenbroich house , was an undercut grain and oil mill that was first mentioned in 1490. The owner of Schloss Myllendonk let her subject Gerhard in gen Nover in the tower throw because he had grinding at the mill Zoppenbroicher and thus against the thirlage the Castle Mill Myllendonk had violated. Several changes of ownership have been registered over the years. In 1763, the bought Cologne Elector the rule Zoppenbroich. As part of the secularization , the mill was sold in private hands.

In 1807 Dietrich and Johann Lenssen acquired the mill and built the largest cotton mill in the area. They also bought the Broichmühle . After the Zoppenbroicher mill burned down in 1823, production was relocated to Broichmühle.

The Zoppenbroich mill was rebuilt and, together with the castle, was owned by the Bresges family in 1827, who also set up a textile factory. Instead of the water wheel , a turbine was used to drive it from 1882 . The factory worked until 1977. The area was transformed into a park , the Bresgespark .

The mill was relocated to the neighboring restaurant Kamphausen in 1879 due to lack of space . The tenant was both an innkeeper and a miller . In 1902 the mill was stopped.

gallery

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  Weir in the Bresgespark

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  Bresgespark in Zoppenbroich

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  Water cascade in the Bresgespark

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  Bridge in the Bresgespark

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  Niersstau weir at Bresgespark

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  Zoppenbroich on the map, new recording from 1912

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  Zoppenbroich on the original cadastral map from 1846

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  The course of the Niers in Zoppenbroich on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide. 2nd Edition. Verein Niederrhein, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pages 490-491.
• Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills. 1st edition November 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0741-6 , pages 53–55, 102–104.

Web links

Commons : Zoppenbroicher Mühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fishing on the Niers
• Interesting facts about the Niers

Individual evidence

1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
2. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
3. ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ http://www.niersverband.de/