The chronicle of the Hotel Mühlenthal
The Valley of 14 Mills
On the property of the Haas family, today a hotel, restaurant, printing shop and floristry in Mühlenthal, was the Vertigo Mill. Built in the 1830s, it was managed by Josef Wernet after 1854. It was the only mill in the valley that was not fed by the Sprengerbach, but by the Zwillingborn: a spring that bubbled up from the Wicherts. The water was collected in a pond and fed to the overshot mill wheel using a wooden candle.
After Josef Wernet's granddaughter Elisabeth Lauer, called Lauer Lies, married the wheelwright Michel Haas from Lasel in the Eifel in 1922, he ran the fraud mill until the end of the 1920s and converted it into a wheelwrighting and carpentry workshop around. In 1926 - 27 the milling operation was stopped and the Café Mühlenthal was set up in the Zwillingmühle.
The Zwilling-Mühle property is now used in a variety of ways. There you will find a restaurant, a hotel, a fruit distillery, a printing company and a florist. All companies run by family members.
