Bärlochsmühle

Bärlochsmühle is a former mill near Strasbourg in the Harz Mountains. It is believed that this mill is directly related to the desolate has become in the 15th century settlement Birnbaum.

History

The mill is located near the confluence of the Glasebaches in the Selke and stands in a relation to a hut that is mentioned in 1467 for the first time. At that time the brothers Roeder and resin never mortgaged the two Count Heinrich of Schwarzburg and Heinrich of Stolberg, inter alia, with a meadow surrounded the Strasberg our Hutten. After the change of Strassberg Anhalt to this investiture was repeated in 1511 by Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt.

1714 requested the book of Daniel Heister here below the smelter to create a dam along with mill, which was refused. 1718 approval of Graf Christoph Friedrich of Stolberg- Stolberg was requested again and this time, also approved subject to conditions. The mill was completely destroyed in 1752 by the spill of Glasebacher pond. Only in 1850 the reorganization was approved, renamed five years later in Bärlochsmühle and rebuilt in the following years to the sawmill. The decline of the mill was at 1950.