Upper Mill

The Bovenste Molen is located on the Geul in the hamlet of Höfke near the Limburg village of Mechelen in the Dutch municipality of Gulpen-Wittem. It is a medium stroke mill. Downstream in the same place is another mill, which is logically called the Lower Mill.
In the 13th century there was already a mill on the site of the Upper Mill, which was the banmolen van heerlijkheid of the Lords of Wittem. During the French period, the mill was confiscated and sold publicly. In 1807 Willem Jacob Watrin bought the mill. He used the flour mill and the house on the left bank himself. He leased the stables and barns on the right bank. In 1828 these buildings were demolished and replaced by one large building, in which Carl Joseph Hollmann, owner of the Lower Mill, established his second paper mill. However, he died in the same year.

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