Paper Mill
Another UE derp for you, this was just a roadside spot!Yes honestly it was one of them "I'm not sure if its abandoned" & "I doubt Ill get in here" jobs. Turned out to be a bit of a saga & a very sketchy entry to be doing on my own but every little bit I cracked gave me the inspiration to carry on.
Half the building is live & they were working on the day of my visit. I kept hidden round the rear away from the staff cars parked right outside front windows of the boiler room but had a bit of a squeaky bum moment walking into a stairwell to find it freshly painted with steps still set up & tools on the floor lol.
In the end I think I covered most the abandoned bit & the minimal vandalism gave me the impression this place isn't very well travelled.
When Germany’s first permanent paper mill was established by Ulman Stromer in Nuremberg in 1390, European papermaking relied completely on textile rags (linen and hemp) as its raw fiber source.
For centuries, these rags were broken down by water-powered stamping mills (Stampfwerke), which used large, iron-tipped wooden hammers to repeatedly strike wet rags in stone basins.
During this industrial boom, the edge runner mill—now engineered from heavy cast iron and dense basalt or granite stones—assumed critical roles in German Papierfabriken:
The edge runner worked alongside another Dutch invention adopted heavily by Germany—the Hollander beater. Typically, the German edge runner acted as the pre-grinder to break up thick, raw material, while the Hollander did the final, fine-tuning fibrillation before the slurry was sent to the paper machine vats.
The explore started with sprint across open ground by a busy road, then a river crossing on the skeletal remains of a bridge & scramble up a bank which led me into the first & probably unrelated building. Part was being used for storage & not much in the rest, but I did find this rather nice basement workshop.
