Nagold
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Oberamteistraße 10, 72202 Nagold
Since the Middle Ages Nagold had two mills which belonged to the lordship: the Upper Mill on the Waldach River and the Lower Mill on the Nagold River.
Both were grain mills with ban rights until 1849. Ban rights specified which mill the residents of an area were allowed to use. As early as 1451 the Lower Mill had a fulling mill in addition to the grain mill.
Nagold’s two largest craft guilds were the clothmakers and the tanners. During the 18th Century more than 20% of the people in Nagold were clothmakers.
By using fuller’s earth, or lean clay, animal skins and woven cloth were smoothened and hair or fibers were removed. Heavy wooden mallets pounded the cloth laid in fulling lye, thereby matting the fabric, which became thicker and firmer. A finer type of woolen cloth called “Zeug” was not matted this way.
Floods
Until 1927 the bed of the Nagold River ran alongside the former medieval stone wall, where water then flowed into the Lower Mill canal. Nagold has seen many floods. The Flood Disaster of 1927 resulted in the immediate correction of the rivers, during which the bed of the Nagold River was moved quite a distance away from the buildings. The fulling mill was no longer in use when it was torn down along with most of the buildings of the Lower Mill, the old weir and the mill canal.
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