Obermühle Boswil AG, Boswil

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About the company Obermühle Boswil AG

Obermühle Boswil AG, based in Boswil, is a company in Switzerland. Obermühle Boswil AG is active according to the commercial register. The company with the UID number CHE-110.108.668 was founded on 06/26/2003. In the database of the IGE (Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property) there are currently trademarks or applications for the company Obermühle Boswil AG.

Company description and purpose of company Obermühle Boswil AG

The old mills, both in cities and in the country, can always be found by the watercourses. They were all propelled by water via upper, middle or undershot water wheels. With the arrival of the electricity companies, large numbers of them have disappeared. The grinding of bread grain was concentrated more and more in large factories in the cities as well as on the national border. Bread, once the epitome of human nutrition, still played an important role in the last century, and so the cultivation of bread cereals also took up a larger area in the first third of this period than it does today. There were still no trains or other efficient means of transport. In years of absence, bread became scarce, and the population went hungry. At that time Boswil had three mills. The lower one used the combined water of the Forstbach and Weissenbach, the upper one and that of Weissenbach (Werdenswil) had the right to use the Weissenbach. For years, only the 8-meter diameter water wheel, which the students often marveled at, has been turning in the upper mill. In 1926 it was demolished and replaced by a modern Francis turbine. The upper mill is said to be the oldest. In 1282 it was owned by the Chuno von Isenbrechtswile and seems to have been an ordinary interest loan (15 quarters of kernels), which changed hands in 1362 as part of the Hubenowner (or Spitter) who were obligated to Kelnhof. Originally, on the place where the new mill was built in 1868, there must have been a grain mill and a plaster mill with two water wheels, as well as an oil trot building in frame construction with a thatched roof. The latter was then converted into a residential building. The production logs show that around the middle of the last century the upper mill often changed hands, be it through voluntary sale or alienation on the day of payment (bankruptcy). In 1868 Heinrich Stöckli, landlord in Boswil (in the old Hälmhus on Niesenbergstrasse) bought the property from JW Nietlispach in Wohlen at a price of 17,000 francs. Heinrich Stöckli had the old buildings demolished and built the mill with a bakery, house and barn in a generous and spacious manner. It was a daring undertaking at the time, as the building costs were supplemented by those for machines and equipment. Father Heinrich had chosen his son Xaver, born in 1842, to run his business. In 1879 he took over the property and in 1887 he married Sophie Dové from Pfeffikon. The clientele grew slowly but steadily, and the farm also expanded. After father Xaver died on February 16, 1917, the two older sons Xaver, born in 1888, and Fritz, born in 1889, took over the business. According to the purchase agreement of May 19, 1917, the mill and the bakery passed to Fritz Stöckli, who had completed his apprenticeship at Hellmühle Wildegg and received further training in French-speaking Switzerland. But already in 1918 he succumbed to the flu epidemic during the occupation of the border on Monte Ceneri, and he left behind a young widow with three small children. With the help of her brother-in-law Xaver, she continued to run the business until she married Josef Keusch. Although not an expert, he tried to get the business going again. It was not easy to get started, because the use of animal feed was quite modest in those years and the market in the baking flour sector was more than saturated. The milling technique continued impetuously. In 1934 the mill was given a thorough overhaul. The cleaning and sifting machines were completely replaced by new and modern ones, and a new grinder (millstone) was also installed. Until now the flour was mixed by hand in a large box by shoveling it back and forth, but now the mixing machine that was planned for 1919 has finally been installed. With the beginning of the Second World War, the cultivation of inland grain was promoted, and grain, the soon-forgotten type of grain, was once again given high honors. So the Röllmühle, which had been torn out decades earlier, had to be rebuilt. Due to the additional extension, the question of space arose, and so the owners decided in 1944 to build a concrete silo with a capacity of 350 tons. Silo storage, for its part, posed another problem, that of proper storage. In 1955 we had an electric dryer made, but in 1960 it had to give way to a more powerful oil-fired dryer. Due to the illness and the early death of our esteemed miller Josef Wick from Zuzwil, we decided in 1958 to completely overhaul the mill. In the past, the intermediate products had to be put into large bags and put together according to the quality, now the intermediate products are automatically fed to the correct grinding machines, and instead of the many bucket elevators, there is pneumatics, which sucks the ground material in thin tubes after the grinding machines and onto the Sighting machines directs. The whole process only needs to be monitored. As early as 1964, the silo facility was too small, and it was expanded by 300 tons in prefabricated construction in the record time of two days. With the expansion of animal husbandry, the production of animal feed also experienced an unexpected boom. What we started in 1949 on a small scale has meanwhile become a strong pillar of our company. The bakery is already mentioned in the purchase contract from 1868. The Obermühle bakery was well known for decades. Thousands upon thousands of crispy four-pounders (pounderli were unknown at the time) left the large wood-burning oven and were reliably customers in the villages of Boswil, Bünzen, Waldhäuser, Staffeln, Hermetschwil, Kallern and in the "Kehri" in all seasons, in wind and weather Uezwil brought. But in the course of time, the bakery was given up in 1963. In 1946 the Fritz Stöckli community of heirs sold the property to Valentin and Fritz Stöckli. What many owners of the upper mill did not succeed in before our great-grandfather bought it, our ancestors and we achieved with the loyal employees. Certainly, not all times have been sunny, as there has been no lack of worries and hardships in any generation. But, aren't the hardships and hardships of a journey in later times the unforgettable joy of finally reaching the destination? Despite temporary failures and the early death of our father, unlike many small businesses in similar circumstances, we were able to hold on. We are closely connected to agriculture and the bakery industry. Their existence is ours too. With them we hang and fear every year for the blessing of the fields, with them we ask God that he will give us all the courage to continue to exist despite the hardships of the time. So we enter the second century with confidence.

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The company Obermühle Boswil AG on Oberdorfstrasse 43 in 5623 Boswil with the phone number 056 677 80 80 is listed on Yellowpages.swiss. Latitude and longitude coordinates for Obermühle Boswil AG are: 47.2952527 and 8.3070705. The unique identification number of this portrait is CHE-110.108.668.

The company Obermühle Boswil AG is listed in the branch Trade. The company Obermühle Boswil AG offers its services in the following categories: Natural products, other products or services according to the company's purpose.

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