Lüftelberger Mühle

The Lüftelberger Mühle is the former castle mill of Lüftelberg Castle. It is located in Meckenheim-Lüftelberg in a depression opposite the castle at Schloßstraße 6 and is now used as a residential building. The building has been a listed building since 1987.

The first mention of the mill can be found in the Electoral Cologne State Description from 1664. It belonged to the moated castle about 50 meters away. The building was probably built on the foundations of an older farm. Until the mid-1930s, wheat, barley and rye were ground and baked here. The attic was used by villagers to dry their clothes. Until 1992, the mill building was used as a residential building, by which time the internal mill technology had already been removed. After a few years of vacancy, the owner of the castle, Carl-Hubertus von Jordans, sold the property, which was in great need of renovation, to Birgit and Lothar Kleipaß in the mid-1990s. The couple renovated the mill building in the following years. In 2009, the Lüftelberg village community financed the construction and installation of a new mill wheel on the outside of the building.

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