The windmill Sprengel was built in 1877 on the Mühlenberg as a gallery Dutchman by Hinrich Leverenz.
Above the octagonal floor plan, he had the mill body built up from solid bricks up to the rotating cap, plastered and cast-iron windows installed. The grist was not delivered via a passage on the ground floor, but was transported to the gallery with an elevator, which is still functional today.
Grain was mainly processed into flour and grist. Around 1900, the wind drive was supplemented by a benzene diesel engine, which was located in an annex next to the mill. The engine was also used for contract threshing. The mill had three mills, the first of which was dismantled in 1950, the second around 1965, and the third worked until 1972, but in recent years it has only been powered by electricity. In 1963 the owners dismantled the wings and in 1972 the gallery.
The mill and farm belonged to the Leverenz family until 1978, when they sold the mill separately from the property for private use, which, however, fell into disrepair over the period that followed. In the course of efforts to preserve the listed mill, the municipality bought the building with the support of the Sprengel Mill Association and renovated it from the ground up in cooperation with the Mill Association and public donors in the years 1990 to 1998.
guides
Are possible on request, the contact person is Mr. Walter Leverenz on Tel. (05195) 390. There is also the possibility of having a civil marriage in the mill. The municipality of Neuenkirchen is responsible for this on Tel. (05195) 940-0.
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