Historic Windmill Millstone Rest Area Kleinstruppen

The very nicely designed rest area invites you to linger.

On the Panoramaweg, a ridge path with a wonderful view of the Sonnenstein and some apple trees on the way to the Königsnase viewpoint, there is a spot where a windmill is said to have stood as a grinding mill in the distant past up to around 1840. Today the very large millstone, two stone benches and an information board bear witness to the history of the mill. The small monument for the former mill location of the old wooden post mill was redesigned in 2007.

At our great-great-grandfathers tents there was a windmill as Mahimühle on the ridge path to Köniasnase
The last material witness to this is the mighty sandstone Mahletein
remained arnals
The records of the windmill, whose millers. Owners and tenants are very few, so that another area of research on the history of Struppen opens up here. The Struppen windmill is also not mentioned in A. Meiche's mill book from 1927.
The corridors with the windmill most likely belonged
always to the possession of closed small troops with the associated knight auts economy.
1721 Christoph Pursche is named as the lessee of the mill in Kleinstruppen.
Around 1730 Johannes Kohler is mentioned as the owner of the Windmunle.
During the 7-year war (1756-1763) many engravings were made showing the field position of the Saxon and Prussian armies in the Struppener Ebenheit area.
So we also find the mill site here in 1756 wleder.
Saxon maps from 1785, the windmill is Kleinstruppen
coentans still registered
In 1822, the Saxon Treasury bought Kleinstruppen Castle and the Kittergutsokonomie tur from the brothers Johann Karl Adolh and Johann Fredrich August von Rayski for 72,000 thalers for the purpose of establishing the Kleinstruppon Royal Saxon Soldier Boys Educational Institution
Umnaukonkvom iNun Tozz under de munio expressly
among other accessories mention
In 1835 the educational institution separates from the manorial economy, to which the windmill will certainly be closed
In 1643 the field troops were re-recorded on the map
The mill is no longer marked on parcels 665-668
The inscription is heavily weathered in the millstone
M. Höhne
1645
The fact that the windmill was no longer recorded on maps in 1843 and the name on the millstone from 1845 lead to the conclusion that the milleum was no longer in existence in 1840 (demolition due to dilapidation, storm damage, lightning or fire?)