Rügenwalder Mill Bad Zwischenahn

Here is the landmark of the Rügenwalder Mühle group of companies, a red mill that was only opened in 2013! Also bookable for celebrations. Part of the Lower Saxony Mill Road.

More than 100 years ago, when Carl Müller produced our Rügenwalder tea sausage for the first time, our trademark, the red mill, was born. At that time there were other butchers in Rügenwalde. One of them, Carl Schiffmann, had a ship on his sausage for better distinction.
“What am I doing on mine?” Carl Müller asked his wife Alwine. And as it was, Alwine said: “We are called Müller, so we have a mill on it.” She then painted it herself.
And because Alwine's mill is still our trademark today, we built it in Bad Zwischenahn. The fully functional mill has been on the grounds of the Charlottenhof on Wiefelsteder Strasse since 2012 and is used for events. It can of course also be viewed and rented privately.

Carl Müller founded a butcher shop in the small Pomeranian town of Rügenwalde in 1834. Carl Müller's successor was his son Johann August Wilhelm Müller. Carl Wilhelm Gottfried Müller, who managed the company in the third generation, produced tea sausage under this name for the first time in 1903. [2] [3] [4] In order to be able to distinguish Carl Müller's sausage from others, his wife Alwine designed a red windmill as the company logo; back then with crooked sausages as wings. [2] [5] The motif of the mill was chosen because the family name was Müller and a competitor named Carl Schiffmann had a ship as a company logo. [5]

Towards the end of the Second World War, the location in Rügenwalde had to be given up in the course of the flight and expulsion of the German population. The Müller family fled to Westerstede in Lower Saxony in 1946. Business was resumed there and the fourth managing director, Carl Wilhelm Müller, relocated to Bad Zwischenahn in 1956. Under the trained watchmaker Kurt Rauffus († 2007), husband of the heiress Ruth Müller, the company grew into an industrial company in the next generation. Until 2017 his son Christian Rauffus ran the business in the sixth generation. In 2012 a functioning windmill was inaugurated in the Bad Zwischenahn district of Kayhausen am Zwischenahner Meer, which was built with red bricks based on the company logo and is intended to support the company's branding. [6]