geschichte.pfad
Historischer Wanderweg Sand
von Manfred Dasbach und Udo Harler
Kapitel 10
Die Oberlerbacher Mühle
Seiten 32 - 33
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 10: The Mill at Oberlerbach It takes a lot of imagination to guess the origin of these two houses huddled against each other. They make you think that they have been standing there for a long time. But it is uncertain if they have always been “Siamese twins”. The little stream called Lerbach flows only ten meters behind the houses, the ideal condition for setting up a mill. In 1804 Johann Josef Kohlgrüber was granted the license to build a corn mill on the condition that it wouldn't damage the irrigation of the adjacent meadows and that he wouldn't be allowed to grind the corn of the farmers that were under contract to the mill at Gronau. In those days the old feudal structures and the relationship of dependence – for the preservation of which Ommerborn had fought – were still in force. A few years later they were abolished by the French who occupied the region. What is of interest are the mechanics of the mill. The water comes from the no longer existing millpond that is fed by the Lerbach. From the pond the miller is able to make it flow through a small canal onto the overshot millwheel in the cellar. The millwheel turns activating the grinder on the ground floor. |
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Evidently the flour was made into bread because in the house next to the stream there was a “Backes”, that is to say a small building with a wood-fired oven. At the end of the 19th century the mill was shut down. From then on the buildings have been used as dwelling houses constantly adapted to the needs of their inhabitants.
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