Rimburger watermill in the Worm near Rimburg, Limburg. by Marjolein Zijlstra

About "Rimburger watermill in the Worm near Rimburg, Limburg."

by Marjolein Zijlstra

About the artwork

The Rimburgermolen or Castle Mill is a German-Dutch former water mill complex near the Dutch village of Rimburg. Sometime after 1791, the mill complex was built. The Rimburgermolen actually consists of two opposing mills on the river Worm, the left bank of which has been in the Netherlands and the right bank in Germany since 1816. The main building is located on Rimburger Straße in the municipality of Übach-Palenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. The Dutch part is on Kapelweien street in the Limburg municipality of Landgraaf. The Rimburg mill is located about'm west of Rimburg Castle (Germany) and about 100 m south of Trinity Church (the Netherlands).
In 1815, during the Congress of Vienna, the river Worm was designated as the national border between the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Prussia. In the mid-19th century, the oil mill (on the left bank) was converted into a grain mill. In 1881, they renovated the mill on the left bank. The water wheel was replaced by a turbine mill in the process. Around 1900, the mill on the right bank had two wooden wheels as a gristmill and oil mill. Not much later, it was replaced by iron gear and an iron undercutting wheel with a diameter of 5 metres.

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The ravages of time are clearly visible, but so the building now survives on the rough waterfront for over 235 years.