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Meckenheim

Lüftelberg Mill

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Lüftelberg Mill

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Location: Meckenheim, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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JakobusPilger

September 29, 2023

Using the power of moving water to drive a mill wheel is an ancient invention of the human spirit of discovery, the origins of which can be traced far back to times long past. Thanks to such a construction, it was possible to simply replace human or animal muscle power with the power of the natural elements using a watercourse - natural or artificial - in order, for example, to grind grain into grain or press oil from fruit.
There are essentially two drive variants for water mills:
* Either the flowing water simply hits the blades of the water wheel from below to set it in motion; or
* The water flow is guided above the wheel - usually through a so-called "mill channel" - and falls onto the blades. This design ensures greater efficiency due to natural gravity.

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Martin

October 11, 2020

Historic mill with a restored mill wheel

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R.Bungartz

April 22, 2023

The Lüftelberger Mühle is the former castle mill of Burg Lüftelberg.
The mill was first mentioned in the Electoral Cologne state description from 1664. It belonged to the moated castle about 50 meters away. The building was probably erected on the foundations of an older courtyard. Wheat, barley and rye were ground and baked here until the mid-1930s. Villagers used the attic to dry their laundry. The mill building was used as a residential building until 1992, by which time the internal mill technology had already been removed. After several years of vacancy, the owner of the castle, Carl-Hubertus von Jordans, sold the property, which was in dire need of renovation, to Birgit and Lothar Kleipass in the mid-1990s. The couple renovated the mill building in the following years. In 2009, the Lüftelberg village community financed the construction and installation of a new mill wheel on the outside of the building. Source: Wikipedia

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