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The Trittauer water-mill
image author: city-map Stormarn, Rüdiger Poweleit
Already for centuries a place of work and encounters.....
.....today a cultural meeting place
with concerts, readings, matinees, exhibitions, recitals and much more in monthly changing
programme.
image author: Gemeinde Trittau Today's life in the mill
The watermill Trittau has become the local culture centre of the community Trittau since its renovation and refurbishment ended in the year 1992. The former accounts rooms at the ground floor became exhibition rooms. There fine artists of the present have the opportunity to present their works to the general public. The artist's initiative Stormarn undertakes by request of the community the choosing of the artists. The few exhibitions that take place here also offer an interesting contrast.
The former miller's living quarters at the first floor are now two flats. The Kulturstiftung Stormarn, who will in turn lease the flat to annual changing scholarship holders, rents one. With that and an extra monthly amount it gives the scholar the option to concentrate on work in inspiring surroundings without financial constrains. The second flat is company housing of the caretaker. In the first floor of the old working tract an unusual room with up to 120 seats was created. Different kinds of cultural events given by guest organisers and by the community itself, give life to the place today. Concerts with classic music, with jazz, pop, choir music or low German songs, readings, lectures, recitals, cabaret, matinees and much more finds here an interested audience. The community also uses the mill's special atmosphere for representative occasions.
On the working tract's ground floor offers a professional furnished kitchen, some adjoining rooms and a bar a great basis for guest and communal organiser for event dependent demand gastronomy.
Part of the mill stable that is located on the grounds has been rented by the artist's initiative Stormarn and is used as community atelier.
The other part of the mill stable is used by the Stormarner Tafel Trittau e.V.
The water-mills' history (summary)
Since ca. 3000BC people have been using mills, mostly grinding mills. Tradition from the Vikings (ca.800 AD) has it, that they used turning mills with furrows and settings, Karl the Great build water-mills at his palaces.
The Trittauer water-mill is located at a place called the 'ante castle' because it has been build where earl Johann von Schauenburg build a palace in 1326 (that had to be pulled down in 1775 because of disrepair).
The Trittauer water-mill was subject to the mill bondage law from 1654 to 1854. The 'bondage - milling guests' from the surrounding villages were not allowed by high penalty to mill their own grain also they had to help the miller with repairs and with loading and unloading. Following villages were subject to mill bondage: Grande, Witzhave, Lütjensee, Hisdorf, Rausdorf, Sprenge, Kronhorst, Großensee, Ötjendorf, Papendorf, Grönwohld, Hamfelde Köthel, Siek, and Trittau.
Because of timed lease contract in the years 1657 to 1726 there was a constant changing of millers. The family Holst took over the Trittauer water-mill in 1726, from 1760 as long-term building lease. In 1933 there was a compulsory auction for the mill and the company Stoltenberg took it over for 32.000 Mark. In 1973 the community Trittau bought it for 500.000 DM. Recorded as an industrial monument in 1976 and incoporated into the newly created community's coat of arms in 1982, the renovation work was finely done in 1992. Since November 1992, the at the end of the 19.century build in turbine wheel has been worked with a generator., that produces electricity.
image author: Gemeinde Trittau The technique of the mill
It is assumed that the water-mill worked for many centuries with vertical undershot waterwheel. It would have been at the sidewall where one can still see today a wall penetration; it is closed up through a wooden cladding. The masticator with two grinding stones was powered by spur wheels, which lay under the grinding stones. Unfortunately drafts or pictures from these times are available.
Towards the end of the 19.century the mill got a so-called 'Francis-Turbine'. And under the path between the mill-lake and the mill a ditch was created. The water that was running through it, powered and still powers the under the building situated metal horizontal turbines. At that time still the direct drive for the masticators, today, if the water level is right, electricity is being produced via a connected generator. The industrial revolution didn't pass by the mill in the meantime. Being tired of the dependence on the water level and several disagreements about the damming up rights let the family Holst to build stable annexe in 1850 to house the steam engine to power the mill and a third masticator.
During the First World War electric power was installed for the masticators that was renewed in 1939. Occasion was at that time again great water shortage at the dammed up lake.
The generation of current
The original 'Francis-Turbine' had a total overhaul in 1992. After that a generator was installed, where the original masticators were still conserved, which was connected over a flat drive belt with the turbine.
The generator with a nominal capacity of ca. 20 kW is connected with the mandrel of the turbine over a pulley. Through this the mandrel was disconnected from the masticator, today without renewed rebuilding the turbine couldn't be powered. Over a switch cabinet the produced electricity is being supplied into the net of the Schleswag, if it is not needed for the mill.
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