Historical summary:

-In "Kreuztal", on the "Krockstein", the most superb marmor used to be  
mined. Neuwerk is first mentioned in the 14th century because of it's  
marmor-mill, ran by the Michaelstein monkhood.

-The age of the "Kreuzmühle" cannot be exactly defined, but the  
millrace of Kreuzmühle must have already existed in 1715, because this  
millrace didn't only feed the Kreuzmühle but also the marmor mill  
standing only a few meters ahead.

-After the marmor mining (and therewith the mill) was halted for a  
wile, it was taken up again in 1715 and lasted until 1889. This  
downright beautiful, red marmor is made of coral-inclusions and on the  
old heaps of Krockstein you can still find one or the other piece of  
that marmor today. Even Friedrich the Great used this marmor for his  
castle "Sanssouci".

-The Kreuzmühle got a new, higher situated mill race in about 1800,  
although the mill working was almost over. At this time, there already  
was a tavern in the millers house.


footprint of Kreuzmühle with races in about 1800




From an fire-insurance-book in 1830, where Kreuzmühle is first  
mentioned as "Creutzmühle"

A Christoph Fischer is mentioned as the owner

-When the mill was sold in 1889, extensive structural alteration works  
were taking place. The miller's house became a hotel. A huge veranda  
was built onto the house and the only thing remembering of the mill  
working was the waterfall in the hotel park.

-the waterfall was closed in times of the former GDR and the building  
was "restucured to death". After the German reunification there were  
only small reconstructions until, in 2007, the whole building began to  
be built to a Centre that combines art, musical and cultural  
arrangements and dark romantics to one.




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