Paradise Mill
The Paradiesmühle Rischenau is a former historical mill of the manor and the domain of Lippe-Biesterfeld .
In 1664, Count Jobst Hermann zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , an ancestor of the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands , Prince zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, built a mill in Biesterfeld , which was demolished in the same year due to a lack of competence with the then Paderborn Archbishop Ferdinand von Fürstenberg . On November 10, 1764, the last gentleman on Biesterfeld, Friedrich Carl August Graf and Edler Herr zur Lippe, Sternberg and Schwalenberg built the new mill today on the foundations.
The mill was initially used as a sawmill for sawing wood, as a drill mill for making water pipes from tree trunks and of course as a grinding mill for grinding grain and grist. With the abandonment of the mansion of those in Lippe-Biesterfeld in the same year, the mill was incorporated into the Biesterfeld domain and operated as a lease mill for the next few centuries. From 1847 it was inherited.
During this time the name "Paradiesmühle" appeared for the first time, the name of which referred to the "paradisiacal" working conditions due to the freedom of trade - and not, as one might suspect, to the location.
Since 2004 the Paradiesmühle has been used as a gastronomic experience with an integrated private mill and local history museum.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 35.8 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 55.1" E