Mills

More than 2000 years ago the history of the mills began in Europe. And here with us in the Elbe sandstone mountains you discover this story in special kind. Along the small rivulet Kirnitzsch, e.g., you find the contemporary witnesses of the mill history. Meal mills and wood grinding mills, also the inns which brought workplaces and prosperity in the valley. Some mills serve even today her original purpose or are a technical monument. By the way, the wood pulp paper was invented here.

The narrow Kirnitzschtal, a gorge valley, is valid as one wild-most romantic generally. One makes a great wandering along the mill way! Here above all in summer if it is hot it feels chilly in the valley pleasantly. This is the cellar climate typical for Saxon Switzerland.

With us in the place Schmilka there is also an impressive mill. Long time she stood still. As a result of its rebuilding faithful after historical subscriptions her soul has got back the Schmilksche water mill today again. It of 1665 coming mills is at the same time the oldest building in Schmilka and has beside the reconstructed mill technology still a small museum small room for visiting. A true splendour piece of the local history!

And immediately towards, in Schmilka-deer mill, the biggest waterwheel of Saxony waits for an inspection. On Whitsun Monday is, by the way, all over Germany "mill day".

Tip! The mill party in Schmilka to Pentecost - a must for every natural lover and mill lover!