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"The Fritzdorfer windmill, also known as the Windmill tower Fritzdorf, is one of the few surviving windmill buildings in the region of the Kottenforst and the neighboring areas. It lies south of the village of Fritzdorf in the district of Wachtberg in the Rhine-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia Border of the Gemarkungen Ringen and Leimersdorf on a hill and is the landmark of the village The mills building is a listed monument.
In 1842, the windmill was built as a three-storey stone tower mill (tower dutch). The building material, basalt, greywacke and bricks, came from the ruins of the dilapidated castle Sommersberg. The mill had a hood, which could be rotated by means of a coiler, including two grindings (grinding floor), which allowed the milling of grain and peeling of barley. The grain was stored on the floor between the ground floor (millhouse) and the grinder. Builder was a Westphalian muller, named Julius Robrecht from Würgassen (Kreis Höxter), who had come to Fritzdorf on his roll and was the first miller of the newly built mill to settle there. Later, after the marriage with a Fritzdorferin 1839/40, he built a dwelling-house with a barn and stables, a baking house and a 27 m deep well. On the ground floor, in the former mill building, was now beaten from rapeseed oil.
Around 1870 Josef Robrecht, one of the sons of Julius Robrecht, took over the mill, but the fruitful years ended. The wind-dependent mill was no longer economical enough to keep up with the newly built water mills at the Ahr. Thus, the mill had to be shut down in 1895 - Julius Robrecht died in the same year at the age of 84. In 1899, the mill passed into the hands of the renegade of the parish, which impoverished Müller. In 1907, Meckenheim became owner of the old mill with the municipalities of Altendorf, Ersdorf and Lüftelberg and took up the milling operation again for two years. Already around the turn of the century the hood was in a desolate state. In 1909 the final decommissioning and the laying of all auxiliary buildings took place. The mill was sold. The wing-cross, which still turned in the wind for years, and the hood fell with time.
In 1978, the mill tower was renovated to preserve and maintain its permanent decay. First of all, the upper wall corridor was repaired, a flat kegeldach set up and the stairs and floors renewed. The successful completion of the renovation was celebrated on 2 and 3 September 1978 with a Volksfest at the Windmühle. Even though the former mills' character was no longer preserved due to the lack of the hood with the wing cross, it was still possible to maintain the 136-year-old tower building.
Today, the mill serves as a place for celebrations and events and can be hired by the municipality of Wachtberg. "