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Fritzdorf Windmill

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Rhein-Sieg-Kreis

Wachtberg

Fritzdorf Windmill

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Fritzdorf Windmill

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

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1. View of Drachenfels – View of Drachenfels loop from Niederdollendorf

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2. View of Drachenfels – View of Drachenfels loop from Ahrweiler

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3. Wachtberg Dragon Sculpture – Fritzdorf Windmill loop from Merl

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Königsborner

June 3, 2019

Small tower under the roof nest hawks.

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Woody.radelt

July 11, 2021

In 1842 the windmill was built as a three-story stone tower windmill (Tower Dutchman). The building material, basalt, greywacke and bricks, came from the ruins of the ruined Sommersberg Castle. The mill had a hood that could be rotated over a codend [2], including two grinding passages (grinding floor), which allowed the grinding of grain and peeling of barley. The grain was stored on the floor between the ground floor (miller's apartment) and the grinder. The builder was a Westphalian journeyman miller named Julius Robrecht from Würgassen (Höxter district), who had come to Fritzdorf on his rolling mill and was the first miller of the newly built mill to settle there. Later, after marrying a Fritzdorf woman in 1839/40, next to the mill, to which some land still belonged, he built a house with a barn and stables, plus a bakery and dug a 27 m deep well. On the first floor, in the former miller's apartment, oil was now made from rapeseed.

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MeinMattes

December 28, 2018

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%B6nungsstra%C3%9Fe

The Coronation Street ran from Frankfurt am Main to Aachen and was laid out during the Carolingian period.

Researchers also refer to the street as Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße (AFH).

The importance of this 9th century road was initially political. The Carolingians and their Frankish successors used them on their numerous trains to Aachen, primarily to hunt and bathe there or also to obtain the royal crown (see also imperial crown). It was also used as a trade route, Heerstrasse or Poststrasse. It crossed many other important road connections such as B. the trunk road from Cologne to Reims.

In the 15th century the street was called Aicher Straße (Aachener Straße). After that she was given other names, such as B. Kaiserstrasse, Heerstrasse, Rheinstrasse or Hohe Strasse.

In the Middle Ages, 36 castles were built on the road between Sinzig and Aachen alone, which served to protect them. B. the

Bodendorf Castle (built in the 13th century)
Landskron Castle (from 1206)
Munchausen Castle (first mention 893)
Bubenheim Castle (from 1237)
In the course of the emerging industrialization, the street lost more and more importance and is hardly recognizable in the localities today.

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

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