Spree Mill Fürstenwalde

The building, erected in 1837 as a water mill, was probably the first brick industrial building in Fürstenwalde.
Grain mills, a tanning mill, a cutting mill and a fulling mill were located on the Spree islands in front of the old town. Today, however, only this water mill, built in brick construction on wooden poles in 1837, has been preserved. It is probably the city's first industrial brick building. The horizontal bands of black glazed bricks are remarkable. It was an American-style mill that carried out the grinding process fully automatically. In 1899 and 1907, as part of the conversion to steam power, first the left and then the right brick building was added. The mill was in royal Prussian ownership. At the end of the imperial period, it belonged to the Müllroser mill complex. It burned down in 1945, but was used again as a mill by the "VEB Fürstenwalder Spreemühlen" until the early 1990s.
(Source: stadtgeschichte.fuerstenwalde-spree.de)

The water mill is a clinker brick building erected on wooden piles in 1837. This is the oldest industrial building
of the city was in operation as VEB Spreemühle until 1990.

There is an information board at the mill with information about the history.