Peeling mill

The first mention of the existence of a mill dates back to 1568, when Baron Richard von Merode, Lord of Frenz, and his wife Margarethe von Oignies allowed the farmer Nellis to build such a special mill on the northern edge of his village Frenz.
Until then, the Frenz castle mill (compulsory mill in the lower village of the village) had provided the barley hulling.
Nellis had to pay his lord for permission to deliver one capon annually and 29 quarts of oil for the parish church at Lamersdorf.
Later, the peeling mill also served as a malting, iron cutting and tanning mill.
In 1780 it was completely rebuilt by Baron Balduin of Merod, who was Lord of Frenz at the time.
From 1803 onwards, it was used exclusively as a grinding mill, mainly for milling. But it has retained its traditional name of „Schälmühle“ (peeling mill) to this day.

The grinder and water wheel have since disappeared.
The lightly plastered area still visible on the outer wall shows where the mill wheel was mounted at that time.
It is not known exactly when the mill ceased to operate.
However, it is a fact that until 1957 the main building housed the administration of the neighbouring Roddergrube (later Rheinbraun AG, today RWE Power AG), which mined lignite there.
The administrative headquarters were later moved to Oberstraße 11 in the village in the mid-1960s.