{"id":9769,"date":"2021-12-10T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/about-the-historic-watermill\/historic-flour-mill\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:19:46","slug":"historical-grain-mill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/en\/historic-flour-mill","title":{"rendered":"Historic flour mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">Structure and history<\/h2>\n<p>Our historic flour mill dates from the 13th century and is the largest flour mill that has ever stood in the Vulkaneifel. The Reifferscheid family could live up to the 1970s with a grinding capacity of 70 quintals of flour.<\/p>\n<p>But even this historic grain mill then had no chance of survival against the large industrial mills.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">Function of the watermill<\/h2>\n<p>The historic flour mill was powered by wooden water wheels until 1917, when it was replaced by a more powerful turbine.<\/p>\n<p>The old mill still operates today with four roller mills and one grinding train. The grain cannot be milled without the prior use of the cleaning machine and the sharpening and hulling machine.<\/p>\n<p>After the grinding process, the plansifter is used in the historic grain mill to separate the flour from the meal, bran and semolina.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">Whole wheat flour<\/h2>\n<p>Only wholemeal flours are ground in the historic grain mill. The freshly milled flour is mainly processed for our own needs in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/muehlen-baeckerei.html\">mill-bakery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Muehle300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<h2>Panorama images<\/h2>\n<p>The path from grain to flour: Functioning equipment on four floors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/muehle\/360grad\/getreidemuehle.html\" target=\"popup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">360 \u00b0 panoramic images &gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n(in new window)<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/historische-muehle.html\">historic watermill<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/muehlenrad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_68.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/UNBENANNT_89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structure and history Our historic flour mill dates from the 13th century and is the largest flour mill that has ever stood in the Vulkaneifel. 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But even this historic grain mill then had no chance of survival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9706,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Historic flour mill - Historische Wasserm\u00fchle Birgel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muehlebirgel.de\/en\/historic-flour-mill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historic flour mill - Historische Wasserm\u00fchle Birgel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Structure and history Our historic flour mill dates from the 13th century and is the largest flour mill that has ever stood in the Vulkaneifel. 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