Nienborger Watermill

There may be a connection between the founding of Nienborg Castle and the emergence of the prince-bishop's corn watermill in Nienborg. The exact date of the mill's origin is not known.
It was probably expanded for a function during a relocation between 1397 and 1400: opposite the corn mill, a watermill for oil pressing was established. The oil mill was likely converted into a fulling mill in the second half of the 16th century.
Between 1806 and 1814, it was at least partially converted into a corn mill and after 1819 into a bone crushing mill.
On December 29, 1826, Herr von Heyden received a concession to expand the watermill with a horse-driven oil mill. On August 1, 1828, von Heyden applied for an additional expansion to add another "horse grain milling" machine. Whether this actually took place is just as unclear from the sources as the realization of the expansion of the bone crushing mill requested in 1858.
Between 1861 and 1882, the former fulling mill was converted into a residential building, which was finally demolished around 1930 and replaced by a solidly built cattle barn. This was clad with timber framing during the renovation of the corn mill in 1984. The owners were: the prince-bishop of Münster or the court chamber in Münster (until 1802), the wild and Rhine count Karl August Friedrich von Salm-Grumbach (1802 – 1819), Theodor von Heyden and his son Wennemar (1819 – 1882), the bailiff van Gemen in Gemen, parish Schöppingen (1882 – 1951), the Nienhaus family (1951 – 1990), the Brüggemann family (since March 1990). Until 2007, the upper floor of the mill was used as a local history room by the Heimatverein Nienborg.

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