Thielenmühle

The original Thielenmühle mill burned down in 1780. The building that still stands today dates from 1782. It is a two-story timber-framed structure with a small brick foundation, gable-fronted with an offset loading hatch in the gable. A small timber-framed smithy extension is attached to the rear. At the angle to the mill – connected by a shared cross-gable roof – is the current gable-fronted residential building, dating from around 1800, with a small hipped roof. It is two stories high and has three bays.
The elaborate 19th-century entrance door is flanked by tall, rectangular windows. Above, the slightly projecting gable features two superimposed loading hatches, the upper one flanked by two windows, with a winch above. The decorative slate cladding on the facade is particularly interesting. According to an inscription plaque, the two left bays of the house were added in 1937, as was the longer westward wing with the gable-fronted building that joins it at a right angle, and a detached barn with a hipped roof. These structures have a high, plastered ground floor and half-timbered upper floors.
The interior fittings of the mill and residential building – windows, doors, paneling – as well as the furnishings of the bread sales room from the 50s have been preserved.
The overshot waterwheel is located on the rear west gable of the mill building. Also preserved are the drive mechanism on the ground floor, and two millstones and a lifting crane on the upper floor. In 1993, the timber-framed gable of the mill building, the windows, front door and shutters, as well as the slate cladding of the facade, were restored. The roof was also re-covered.
In 1887, Wilhelm Goetze laid the foundation stone for the later Goetze AG (today Federal Mogul) in an outbuilding of the Thielenmühle mill.