Grube (Wismar)

Mühlengrube with age old mill in the background

The pit is a regulated stream in Wismar in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. In official maps it is called mill creek. In the city, the pit, the flow direction divided following, in the sections Mühlengrube, freshness and round pit mine. The parallel leading to the watercourse streets are named after the sections.

Course

The mill stream is an outflow of the mill pond. This is fed by Wallenstein ditch and flows through this from south to north. The mill stream leaves the pond on the western shore, passes under the railway line Wismar -Bad little, thence in a northerly direction. South of the station is run through a park. A weir dams the mill stream on here. After passing under the railway station road the ditch runs west and reaches the former municipal mill, which is now known as Old Town Mill. From here on, the waters Mühlengrube is called. Within the northern Old Town, the pit is enclosed in Feldstein dry masonry. Are cobbled one-way streets on both sides. At the level of Schabbellhauses the name of the water body changes in freshness pit. From the goat market in the northwest of the old town to the mouth of the Old Port is called the round pit. This is bridged by a half-timbered house, which bears the name of the vault.

The watercourse overcomes the mill pond to the mouth of four feet of vertical drop. The total length is about two kilometers, surrounded by the city center run 670 meters.

History

The mine was one, was dammed in a valley flowing stream from the mill pond to the port which regulates the 13th century for the operation of mills and made ​​navigable. Barges transported goods here, such as grains, salt and herring. The watercourse also served the washing of laundry and the water supply. Wooden tubes ( Pipen ) led the water to places with tubewells. In the city fires drain the pit was earlier by iron gates that had to be brought in from the city's yard, locked into the harbor on the vault, so that water to extinguish the fire could be dammed.

In contrast to a once existing other watercourse in the city, the salt mine, was led into the sea from the port to the hop market, the pit was designated in its entire length, as freshness pit.

Selection of structures along the course

The roads to the pit are mainly built with simple two - and three-story apartment buildings from the late 19th century. At the entry of the stream into the city center there was already in 1229 a water mill. The Old Town Mill today was built in 1855/56 as a steam mill and later enlarged. It is a brick building historicizing. Following the river, is located on the right side, the Nikolai Church, a late Gothic religious building from the years 1381 to 1487. On the left side of the Schabbelhaus from the 16th century can be seen, which now houses the City History Museum is located. In the harbor there are several former storage building. The round hole is bridged by a two-storey timber-framed building on two barrel-vaulted bridge Jochen from the mid-17th century. The building is called the vault.

At the bridges Schweinsbrücke, originally from the mid-19th century, and the bridge between the Bohrstraße and the scrub road from 1875 are worth seeing. Both are masonry arch bridges. The pig bridge was rebuilt after 1994. Since then, four railing posts are decorated by small, metal pig sculpture. In some places still carry stairs down to the water.