Lameschmillen

Lameschmillen , también conocido como Bergemer Mühle, se encuentra a medio camino entre Bergem y Noertzange (municipio de Mondercange ), en la confluencia de los ríos Alzette y Mess . ^{[ 1 ]} Es uno de los tres molinos de agua de Luxemburgo con el mismo nombre. Marca el límite sur del Proyecto Dumontshaff en Dumontshaff/ Dumontshof , que convirtió un tramo del curso superior del Alzette en una reserva natural. La zona es rica en fauna silvestre, especialmente aves acuáticas.

En este mismo lugar ha habido un molino desde al menos el siglo XII, cuando, junto con Esch , Mittendal y Bergem, formaba parte de la parroquia (precursora del municipio) de Schifflange . Los edificios que aún se conservan datan de los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX, con modificaciones posteriores en los siglos XX y XXI.

En algún momento, la familia Lamesch o Lamers debió haber gestionado el molino, dando origen a su nombre, pero esto no pudo haber ocurrido después del siglo XVII, ya que los registros continuos desde 1700 no mencionan la participación de esta familia.

1530: Johanna de Mercy construyó el castillo rodeado de fosos de Mittendal en Bergem, al que pertenecían los derechos sobre el molino de Lamescher.

1664: Se encontró una piedra con esta fecha en la casa del molinero.

1700: Marie-Marguerite Bosch (viuda Gennetais) y Ludwina Petronella Bosch (viuda del coronel Sébastien-François de Stassin, gobernador de Béthune y señor del castillo de Brandenburgo , fallecida en 1684), hijas de Florent de Bosch y Marguérite de Vigneul, dejan Lameschmühle a Jean Eydt y Marguerite Berchem.

1712: Contrato de arrendamiento firmado por Ludwina Petronella de Bosch a favor de Paul Schweich, esposo de su hija Ludwina Petronella Eydt. Se puede deducir que Jean Eydt fue el segundo esposo de Ludwina Petronella de Bosch.

1719: Paul Schweich se casa con Johanna Nicholas, lo que significa que Ludwina Petronella Eydt ya había fallecido.

1723: Paul Schweich se casa con Catherine Calmes.

1731: Marie-Marguerite de Stassin (viuda de Charles-Bernard du Bost-Moulin, hija mayor de Ludvine Petronella Bosch con su primer marido) alquila Lameschmühle a Nicolas Kribs de Huncherange .

1743: Wilhelm Franck de Lamescher Mühle se casa con Anna Helena Reuter de Altwies .

1759: Ludovine Petronilla du Bost, Countess de Chanclos (daughter of Marie Marguerite de Stassin, wife of Field MarshalCharles-Urban de Chanclos) leases the mill to Theodore Franck, son of Guillaume Franck and Madeleine Krips.

1765: Anna Franck of the Lameschmühle marries Nicholas Zeller of Budersberg.

1766: The Land Registry of the Empress Maria Theresa lists Theodore Franck as the Miller.

1768: Stable building erected.

1776: A door lintel of this date found in the Miller's cottage, with T. FA - 17 ihs 76 O. C.? inscribed. By this time the Franck family owned the Mill outright.

1777: The Ferraris Map marks the mill as Lammeischer Muhlen. Today's rectangular configuration of the buildings is clearly visible, though still as separate buildings.

1820: Bastien Klensch of Bergem and Krips of the Udinger Mill take the Miller Michel Franck, son of Theodore Franck, to court, because Franck had raised the level of his waterwheel and the depth of the mill-race. It was decided that the mill-race should be lowered by 47 inches along its entire length. A sluice must be put back in the mill-race. This must be open for at least a full day to clean the by-flow, and for other specified reasons. It was forbidden to obstruct the race or the sluice. On the first Sunday of each January, April, July and October all the sluices must be open all day. In September the mill-race and canal must be thoroughly cleaned.

1824: The land register names the Widow of Michel Franck as owner.

1876: A new mill building was built (the door lintel was dated and initialled MP 1881 ML) with a turbine underneath.

1904: The owner was Peter Müller.

1922: Gustav Wilhelm and his wife Josephine Scheltgen purchase the mill at auction on 15 February, from the estate of Peter Müller. Wilhelm recalled that on his first evening at the mill upon taking possession, he shouted aloud to express his joy, knowing that all around him was his land, and nobody in earshot. Josephine's sister Elise and her husband, Theodore Diederich, also lived on the property. They named their son Gustav after his uncle, and he in due course inherited the mill. New living quarters constructed between the Stable and the miller's cottage; a turret added with initials GW-1922-JS.

1940: The mill was temporarily taken over by the German Army. Stores hidden by the Wilhelm and Diederich families (behind a false wall where the Mazout now stands) were not discovered. One of the mill's four dray horses was commandeered.

1960: Milling of wheat ceased; milling for fodder continued.

1961: Gustave Diederich sells Lameschmillen to Paul Brockmeyer and Marianne Bauler

1970: All milling ceased, when the Brockmeyers took to commercial stabling. Additional adjacent land was acquired by them in 1973, 1981 and 1990. The whole property was divided into two - the Stables and the Domaine.

2004: The mill, cottage and corner building with turret amalgamated to form a single dwelling. Facade of the cottage building altered to include a front door and two large ground floor windows, with a gabled window above.

2016: The Biddinger family sells the riding school.

49°30′48″N6°02′35″E / 49.51333°N 6.04306°E / 49.51333; 6.04306

Sources:- Die Mühlen des Luxemburger Landes by Émile Erpelding, 1981, published by St.-Paulus-Druckerei Luxemburg Bureau Cadastral, Luxembourg Local Inscriptions Oral reminiscences of Gustave Diederich