Stallionford Mill

The Hengstforder mill is a windmill in the peasantry Hengstforde in the municipality Apen . The mill and the associated miller's house are still used for commercial purposes today. In the mill can inhabitants leave the town of Apen trust and miller's house is now home to the "country inn Hengstforder Mill" restaurant. The Hengstford mill is located directly on the Aper Tief and is in the immediate vicinity of the Hengstforde outdoor pool, the only outdoor pool in the municipality of Apen.

history

On August 14, 1742, the builder and master miller Tönjes Brunken received a license from the government of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg to produce peeled barley , pearl barley and groats for cutting oil. In the following year Brunken sold the mill to the East Frisian Harm Conrads. Harm Conrads bequeathed the mill to his son Conrad, who in turn passed on to his son Johann Georg. Since Johann Georg Conrads had no children, the Hengstford Mühle passed to Christoph Böhlje after his death in 1839. The mill was owned by the Böhlje family for a total of five generations. In 1882 the old mill was torn down and replaced by a new one in the same place. The mill continued to operate until the Second World War. Only then was he hired. A lightning strike later made the mill unusable and so it was demolished in 1952 down to the stone octagonal. The fallow land was still inhabited until the late 1990s. After the death of the last resident, the listed miller's house was handed over to the new owners and the conversion to a country inn with restaurant was pushed ahead. The Hengstford mill itself has been owned by the municipality of Apen since 1984. The mill was rebuilt between 1996 and 1998 with funding from the European Union , agriculture , other businesses and donations from citizens of the municipality of Apen. The mill is operated by the mill association founded in 1996 in the municipality of Apen eV.

Web links

Commons : Hengstford Mühle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

53.21709 7.785941Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 7 ° 47 ′ 9.4 ″ E