A mill stream has had its day
When the old Inde river was regulated at the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s and its tributary, the Mühlenbach (also known as „der Disch“ to the people of Frenz), disappeared, the village also lost part of its old naturalness.
Many inhabitants in the lower village and on the Frenzer Driesch were, however, very grateful for the regulation, as it finally banished the almost annual floods.
The map shows the course of the waters before regulation around 1920.
The Mühlenbach was diverted from the Inde on the local side of the motorway by a barrage (the concrete remains of which can still be seen today). It then flowed past the former large Schmitz meadow and the adjacent small wood through Unterstraße and supplied the turbine of the then forced mill (and the later Carrier & Baum factory) with water. In the area „Am hohen Ufer“ it then flowed back into the Inde, was diverted again to drive the water wheel of the peeling mill, and then finally rejoined the Inde.
Some photographs show how the mill stream flowed through Unterstraße and past the Müller inn with its bridge up to Hofstraße and along the former Lövenich farmstead, and what effects the frequent floods had.
