Grützmühle - Hamburg, Germany
N 53° 39.007 E 010° 10.126
32U E 577251 N 5945229
Mühle von 1841 auf dem Gelände des Museumsdorfes im Hamburger Stadtteil Volksdorf.
Waymark Code: WM11C0H
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 09/24/2019
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The Grützmühle was originally built in 1841 in Hummelsbüttel.
The Hummelsbüttler Grützmühle was operated until 1885, after which the building fell into disrepair. Although it was listed as a historical monument in 1937, its decay was not halted. In 1962 it had to be finally demolished. Before it was demolished, it was measured, the grinding plant was salvaged and temporarily stored in the Harderhof in Volksdorf.
The building is a simple two-storey half-timbered house with a floor area of 7.60 m x 6.90 m, which was only used for grinding. On the ground floor there is a horse-drawn spoon as drive, on the upper floor there are two grinding gears as well as all the equipment required for the mill operation.
The village mills, operated by animal power, used to be ordinary facilities, which nobody noticed any more than they became superfluous in the course of mechanisation. In contrast to the more impressive windmills or watermills of the sovereignty, some of which were further developed into more efficient operations and therefore preserved, the small mills did not survive. This is why it is easy to get the wrong picture today: in the past, the inconspicuous groat mills, which are only preserved in a few specimens, were at least as important for the production of food as the well-known landscape mills of the sovereignty.
In 1966/67, the Grützmühle building in the museum village of Volksdorf was reconstructed according to old plans. The original grinding plant was prepared ready for operation and reinstalled.
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