Buscher Mühle

Buscher Mühle is a historic watermill on the Northern Düssel in Düsseldorf’s Düsseltal district. It remains the last partially preserved mill within Düsseldorf’s city limits. Water once powered grain milling beside the former Buscher Hof estate in Düsseldorf.

Its origins are believed to reach the early fourteenth century, while records first document it in 1790. A 1316 document names Johannes de Buscho as the estate’s tenant. In 1811, its milling mechanism expanded to three grinding operations, while wooden axles and gears received a dated inscription. Grain milling continued until the Second World War. Bombing on 2 November 1944 severely damaged the building, and the city rebuilt it in 1956 with a simpler roof.

The Derendorfer Jonges began another renovation in 1979. In 1992, Andreas Dahmen led the association in securing a twenty-five-year lease from the city. The association invested more than 520,000 Deutsche Marks in restoration. The waterwheel was restored during this work. Inside, one reconstructed milling mechanism remains, and the wooden axles and gears bear the date 18 December 1811.