Category: Techno

Early, when hans schnos drinks his coffee and looks out the window "i know how the store runs", and in the evenings, he does have a chat with those who sail the rough waterways from the danube to the north sea every day. The man from limbach has been in the service of the federal waterway and shipping administration for 50 years, and in particular he is the head of the control center for the locks from viereth to ottendorf.

Officially, the head of the department, heinrich schoppmann, acknowledged the "excellent work done" by hans schnos and presented the certificate of thanks.
He remembers his first day on 1. September 1967 hans schnos remembers well. The 14-year-old's apprenticeship as a hydraulic engineer at the schweinfurt waterways and shipping authority (WSA) began on a floating dredger in schweinfurt harbor, where he had to help remove rust. But, he says with a smile, the weather was right and so were his colleagues – the cordial contact continues to this day.
In 1972 the civil service training followed, hans schnos came as a young man to all locks on the main between frankfurt and nurnberg on the main-danube canal. From 1974, he was a lock keeper in limbach, and in 1990 he became head of operations at the knetzgau lock.

In the lonnerstadt muhle of paul and regina bruckmann, interested burghers can still experience today how water power was used in past centuries to turn grain into flour. Paul bruckmann and son felix still master this traditional muller craft.

It is precisely this craft that UNESCO recently declared an "intangible cultural heritage" explained in order to preserve it and preserve it for future generations. As unesco has discovered, of the 50,000 mills that once existed in germany, only about 50 still keep the traditional muller craft alive. Only in these few mills, which use wind or water power as drive technology, is the old technology still maintained. The lonnerstadt muller belongs to this select circle.