16 four-wheel mill

The Kyritzer city gate was once located in the narrow street near the Vierrademühle.
The arm of the Dosse, which was filled up today, ran in front of it.

The Vierrademühle is the oldest mill in the city. Here, among others, the forced meal guests from the villages came. They had to use a precisely prescribed route from the Wildberger Tor via Borchertstrasse and Domstrasse. The Mühlengang, a paved path from Domstraße to Vierrademühle, is still preserved today.

They were not allowed to sell their flour in the city and were obliged to leave Wusterhausen via the same route, to the Wildberger Tor.

The sawmill stood on the main arm of the Dosse, in front of the Kyritz Gate. The Klempowsche Mühle, the so-called Seemühle, is located directly on the shore of the Klempowsee. The Borchert windmill once stood in the Scheunenviertel, towards Gartow.

Vierrademühle Kyritzer Strasse 31

The location of the Vierrademühle was determined by the von Plotho lords, the town founders of Wusterhausen, and was first mentioned in a document as early as the 13th century. It was a four-wheeled water mill powered by a then-existing canse arm. The forced meal guests from the surrounding villages had to take a prescribed route to the mill, the Mühlengang, bypassing the duty payment.

For centuries, many generations of millers managed the water mill at the Kyritzer Tor. Until 1954, the mill was used for grinding and crushing. In the 1960s, the inner-city Dossearme were filled up.

This ended the long mill tradition at the site. Offices for the LPG were created from the grinding rooms. From 1992, the mill complex was converted into the “Mühlenhof” hotel and restaurant.