Kriemhild-Mühle AG

About Kriemhild-Mühle

Kriemhild-Mühle AG operates a historical tower windmill in Xanten on the Lower Rhine, built as a post windmill on a former fortified tower of the city wall. The company produces and sells bread, milk loaves, sweet baked goods and savoury pastries with its own fillings, as well as natural foods and natural products. According to the company, fresh creamery butter, honey or whole cane sugar are used in production; raising agents, emulsifiers, artificial flavourings and colourings as well as preservatives are avoided, and some cake varieties are vegan. The product range also includes coffee and cake as well as a historical bakery with a mobile wood-fired oven. The mill offers guided tours and hands-on events run by the mill association and forwards B2B recommendations. Locations are the mill at Nordwall 5 in Xanten (headquarters) and a branch in Rheinberg; the owner's address is at Brückstr. 24 in Xanten.

Site

Xanten

Processes

Guided tours and events (hands-on mill), Sale of natural foods/natural products, B2B recommendations, Coffee and cake, Historical bakery / Mobile wood-fired oven

Materials

Fresh creamery butter, Honey from the region, Whole cane sugar, Vegan ingredients (margarine)

Industries

Food/Milling (bread, pastries, natural foods)

1. 01

   Grain milling in the windmill

2. 02

   Baking of bread, pastries and rolls

3. 03

   Sales at the mill and branch

4. 04

   Guided tours and hands-on events

Ingredients and Production

Locations

Xanten, Nordwall 5

DE

Headquarters and historical mill

• Windmill
• Oil mill (historical)
• Wooden gear wheels

Rheinberg, Xantener Str. 79

DE

Branch / sales outlet

History

1. 1778

   Watchman's tower sold to merchant Gerhard Schleß

2. Heinrich Schleß installed a windmill with an oil mill in the tower; the mill later passed to the Hermanns miller family (Walbecker Mühle) and came into the possession of the city of Xanten