Originally the Seefelder mill was next to two others in Oldenburg at the traffic jam. The exact location can unfortunately no longer be determined today, but there are contemporary representations that show these three mills in today's harbor area of old Oldenburg.
In 1874 the mill was sold to Seefeld, which was nothing unusual. It was quite common not to demolish the valuable carpentry work, but to rebuild it elsewhere and continue to use it.
Thus, in 1876, the mill went into operation again at its present location as the Seefelder mill and was commercially used until 1968, ie almost 100 years. In this period, however, the mill had many owners: Müller Johann Hinrich Höpken, the buyer of the Oldenburg mill, has apparently taken over with the expansion of barn and bakery and gave already in 1883 on the operation.
From then on, the varied history of the mill recorded foreclosures, sales and purchases and, consequently, frequent changes of ownership. The fire register lists the names Fuhrken, Rosenbusch, Ehlers, Martens, Albers and Eymers.
During all these years, numerous structural changes were made, such as the construction of a packing and machine house around 1900, the installation of a third grinding mill, one of which was operated in the period 1903-1928 by steam power.
After the last miller, Erich Eymers, had finally ceased operations in 1968, the mill visibly deteriorated.
Particularly noteworthy is the use of the couple Merker, who bought the mill in 1976 and restored with great effort from 1978, so that in 1986, the mill could be re-initiated in a large village festival.
In 1987 the association "De Seefelder Möhl e.V." was founded. Since 1989 the mill is owned by the municipality Stadland, whereby the association Seefelder Mühle has a contractually agreed right to use the premises of the mill.
Also since 2001, the professional operation of the mill is ensured by trained Müller.
The Seefelder mill is next to the Moorseer mill, the last of about 120 mills that once stood in the Wesermarsch, which still witness many mill stumps and especially place names and field names.