Bark mill

A Lohmühle is used for crushing the need for the vegetable tanning tannery. There are ground from Lohwäldern to Lohe mainly spruce and oak bark. This is very tannic and therefore suitable for tanning leather. The material was originally used but also for the preservation of fishing nets, ropes and sails. Lohe was since the Middle Ages an important commodity, which was subjected to the stacking law.

After a material is comminuted this is ground in the actual mill. Several principles apply here: either as Lohstampfmühle, or the coffee grinder principle ( cone mills ), disintegrants or horizontal millstones, their use was prohibited at times in some areas.

In the vicinity of former tanneries often found Lohmühlen. Their sites are often found their way into streets or restaurant names, such as in the center of Cologne which road below the Pantaleon Church: Rothgerberbach, Blue Stream, mill creek - there were quite a few Lohmühlen that were supplied by the Rheinauhafen ago with regrind and turn the Gerber supplied bach up.

Various Lohmühlen that were built around 1750, were, for example, on Lohmühleninsel the Landwehr Canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. In Lübeck, one finds the stadium Lohmühle, home of traditional football club VfB Lübeck. Also the Hohenlockstedter Lohmühle pond is named after a former situate there Lohmühle.