The mill building is very well preserved and serves as a residential building. On the side you can see where once the hammer flow was diverted to the mill wheel and where its wave led into the mill.

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Thomas

March 28, 2023

The mill house of the former water mill is still well preserved. The Rauhbusch is worth a visit at any time of the year, and the paths in the direction of Unterhammer also offer their own world of adventure.

Scharpenbrugge was first mentioned in a document in 1397. The name indicates a favorable location on the water. On March 16 of that year the settlement was declared deserted. So the owners Andreas von Rehfeld and the brothers Vivianz and Hans von Heinrichstorf sold the village and the town of Gottow to the Zinna monastery with a hammer and the heath.

Due to its location on the Hammerfliess, which is called Mühlenfliess here, and the presence of bog iron ore in the surrounding fields, Scharfenbrück is closely related to the iron production of the past, the center of which was in Gottow. Since 1642 there has been a water-powered hammer mill for crushing the ore, which later became a grinding and cutting mill. In 1642, the iron hammer became a hereditary fief and also owned a grinding and cutting mill. The bog iron ore found in the area is processed. Sheep farming was typical for the village and estate at the time. As a result of an inheritance, damask weavers were settled from 1771. A number of windmills and watermills were also in operation in and around the site. Until 1916 the place was churched in Luckenwalde, then in Woltersdorf. Scharfenbrück once owned a manor house with a farm and park. Some outbuildings and the park are still preserved today. Until 1945, the place had changing landowners, of which the philanthropist and factory owner Christian Gottfried Fähndrich, the writer and utopian socialist Postrat Carl Wilhelm Fröhlich and the graduate engineer Hans Windhoff as a designer of motorcycles with water-cooled two-stroke engines became known beyond the region. In the park in a robinia grove there are two boulders that are associated with old legends. One of them is the tombstone of Hans Windhoff.

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