Wikipedia says: The Sohlener mill was an overshot water mill in today belonging to Magdeburg district soles of the village Beyendorf soles. The four-sided mill farmstead on the Sülze is a listed building, but is no longer in use as a mill.
The current building of the mill yard (Dodendorfer way 11), which was built partly as framework, bricks and quarry stone, go back to the period from 1785 and is laid out as a four-sided court. The mill is located at the western end of the local situation in the so-called frog ground on a path running along the brawn to Dodendorf as a dirt road. Only a few hundred meters west of the mill, the Federal Highway 14 crosses the brawn.
Noteworthy are some arched windows and the front door, both renovated at the turn of the century to the 21st century. The mill technology of the originally super-powered mill is preserved only in small parts.
Already for the year 1370 a watermill is mentioned as abandoned at a Slavic place Kriwen. It is assumed that this was already the current location. Around 1380, the mill in Kryve, later Solenbeyndorp, called as archiepiscopal fief. The lease was two wheat grain a year, which is likely to have met about a ton of grain. Documented the names of various tenants are handed down. In the years 1368/82 Ebeling is called by Borne in Magdeburg. In 1380 Ritter Fritz is led to Welsleben with Werner Pistorius and Nicolaus Aben. 1428 had Otto Schriber of Schmalkalden, 1446 Bosse Homburg and 1491 Caspar Homburg to Brumby held the fief.
In 1785, the miller Johann Heinrich Schade renewed the mill room and erected the buildings, some of which are still standing today. Farming was also done parallel to the miller activity.
On November 8, 1813, a company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st provisional Croat regiment was in the mill. The unit belonged to French troops under the command of General Pierre Lanusse, who should defend soles and Dodendorf from approaching Russian, allied with Prussia troops. However, the attacking Russian troops under General Doktorof forced the early evacuation of the Sohlener mill. [2]
In 1882 the mill was operated by W. Bothe. The last miller was Albert Borchert who ceased operations in 1926. Until 1939/40 the water wheel was still functional.