Lohmühle (Köln-Mülheim)
Former water mill on the Strunde in Köln-Mülheim, barely mentioned in the literature and only ever in its role as a Lohmühle, a mill for grinding tanning bark.
Toward the Rhine, tanners once prepared their raw animal hides for further processing. Floods and thunderstorms repeatedly washed the riverside streets clean.
Source: Wikipedia
At a glance
- Type
- Water mill, no longer standing
- Watercourse
- Strunde
- Reported location
- Lohmühlenstraße
- District and borough
- Mülheim
- Tanner area
- Surroundings of today's Deutz-Mülheimer Straße
Tanners cleaned their raw animal hides near the Lohmühle, in the area of today's Deutz-Mülheimer Straße; the waste-fouled riverside streets were repeatedly cleansed only by floods and heavy thunderstorms.
Sparse records
The literature offers very little information about the mill, and it is named only for its function. The location on Lohmühlenstraße is given as a traditional account, not as a verified fact.
Tanners by the Rhine
Somewhat downstream, toward the Rhine, tanners cleaned their raw animal hides. They did so in the area where Deutz-Mülheimer Straße runs today.
Cleansing by water
Waste fouled the streets along the riverbank. Floods and heavy thunderstorms cleaned them again and again.
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