1023 - Dietrich Genau, Mittelmuehle in Hoym, Watermill with Mill Wheel at Sunset, 2010

Dietrich Genau, Mittelmuehle in Hoym, Watermill with Mill Wheel at Sunset, 2010 (1936 Osnabrueck to 2026), oil on canvas, signed at the right, inscribed, with the place name and dated Hoym in the year 2010 on the reverse. The Mittelmuehle in Hoym in evening light: the half-timbered building with a tiled pitched roof over a masonry base storey, in front of it the large water wheel in an open post frame under a small pitched roof, adjoining on the right a wing in ashlar masonry, the round-arched door warmly lit; in the foreground the mill stream with a stony bank, on the left trees and a paling fence, the sky in orange. Good condition. Image 30x40 cm (HxW). Framed, frame minimally scuffed at the top centre, frame width 7 cm The Mittelmuehle in Hoym, also called Hermannsmuehle, was built around 1750 and worked as a grain mill until 1961; its undershot water wheel measures 5 m in diameter and 1.8 m in width. It stands in Muehlenstrasse under monument protection, has been in family ownership since 1903 and is regarded as the best-preserved undershot watermill in the territory of the former principality of Anhalt. Alongside it the Schlossmuehle and the Fraubornmuehle worked in Hoym. Dietrich Genau compiled the history of Hoym as its local chronicler and was honoured with the cultural prize of the Salzlandkreis in 2020.