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Kirchlengern

Brausemühle and wooden footbridge over the Else

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Detmold District

Herford

Kirchlengern

Brausemühle and wooden footbridge over the Else

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Brausemühle and wooden footbridge over the Else

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Location: Kirchlengern, Herford, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Oak Avenue on the Elsedamm – Elseaue Riverside Path loop from Hiddenhausen-Schweicheln

41.6km

02:26

110m

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2. Spatzenberg – View of the Werre River loop from Neustädter Feldmark

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01:19

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3. Else loop near Kirchlengern – Elseufer in Bünde loop from Bünde (Westf)

17.3km

01:03

50m

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Sonnenreimer🌞

June 8, 2023

The Brausemühle an der Else (Elsestr. 159, 32278 Kirchlengern) is a former water mill with a long tradition. It was mentioned in a document as early as 1745, and is probably considerably older. For centuries, the mill fed the people of the Ravensberg region with its products, until it too fell victim to the nationwide "mill death" and mill operations were discontinued in 1972. The special thing about the Brausemühle: It was one of the first power plants in the Elsetal and supplied Südlengern and Kirchlengern with electricity. The master miller Heinrich Schürmann was also an expert in power generation using water turbines. Parallel to his father's mill business, he installed the first dynamo at the Brausemühle in 1902 and publicly advertised this then new type of power generation on site. With success: the Heinecke cigar factory, the Wöhrmann bakery and the Südlengern village school were the first electricity customers.

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Sonnenreimer🌞

June 8, 2023

Milling and power generation at the Brausemühle are long gone; today it is an industrial monument for that time. In the course of the renaturation of the Else, the mill weir was replaced by a so-called rough slide and in its place in 2010 the new wooden bridge for pedestrians and cyclists (must push here) was opened. Since then, this Else crossing has become a popular route for cyclists and walkers.

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Tom

November 19, 2020

The power came to Kirchlengern with the shower mill.

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Location: Kirchlengern, Herford, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Brausemühle and wooden footbridge over the Else

1. Oak Avenue on the Elsedamm – Elseaue Riverside Path loop from Hiddenhausen-Schweicheln

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3. Else loop near Kirchlengern – Elseufer in Bünde loop from Bünde (Westf)

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