Watermill Museum Brüglingen
The Mill Museum Brüglingen is in Brüglinger level in the district of New World from Munich stone ( in the area Birseck ), Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland.
Location
New world is the geographical name for the area that has arisen with the advent of industrial development on the uppermost part of the St. Alban- pond. The Canal St. Alban- pond was artificially created in the 12th century to drive the mills in Basel St. Alban-Tal. In the years 1624 /25 channel upstream has been extended by the Brüglinger level up to the Birswasserfall. Here the water is diverted from the Birs.
The museum is housed in the former water mill Brüglingerhofs, next to the Villa Merian, that now houses the Café Merian.
History
The mill was first mentioned in 1259, belonged to the cathedral chapter of Basel and was operated until in the 16th century by a tenant who has thus had the milling monopoly for the cathedral chapter courtyards. The mill was powered by a tributary of the Birs with water, but it was due to flooding on the one hand or lack of water andererseit repeatedly threatened in their existence.
During the 16th century, the building of the present mill building, rebuilt in 1777, it was inhabited by the respective millers.
Christoph Merian took over in 1824 the estate farm and the mill. The Christoph Merian Foundation built the mill in 1892 to a modern mill customers. During 1925, the operation was discontinued. Until the 1950s, the mill continued to serve as a feed mill for the farm estate.
The since 1966, and in 2002 newly designed exhibition tells about the history of the mill and the Hand and daily work of the miller and his wife from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. The milling machinery is functional, so that the mechanism of the water-driven mill wheel to the rotating millstone is shown. It is also the story about the former Aktienmühle Basel, which had to cease production in late 2003, to learn in an interactive documentation.
Mill plant
Mill plant
Exhibition
Old flour sacks dateiert from the 19th century