Vodní mlýn, Watermill in Sazená, Czech Republic

The Vodní mlýn stands on a slope above the millrace on the Bakovský potok in the northwest of Sazená, by the road to Ledčice near a stone bridge with statues. Its rectangular building has a mansard roof and richly articulated façades; a gate at the east corner joins the boundary wall, with a barn in the east corner facing the road and single-storey animal sheds along the wall. A garden occupies the south and west parts of the grounds.

The mill is first documented in 1544, when miller Urban of Sazená bought it. In 1569 and 1577 it belonged to Gryspek of Gryspach, and it was then a stone building with two millstones and a thatched roof. In 1757 the Premonstratensian convent of Doksany bought it and had it rebuilt. After 1879 the mill was modernised with a Francis turbine and French millstones from Hübner and Opitz in Pardubice. Milling stopped in 1943 and the mill was nationalised in 1950.

The mill's name appears in a 1544 deed, when "Urban mlynář z Sazeného" bought the mill lying by the village. A 1784 purchase contract names miller Václav Hájek, a weather expert who shared observations with astronomer and meteorologist Antonín Strnad; Strnad spent the last year of his life in Sazená. Hájek was also called to water-management commissions.

The mill stands in the northwest part of Sazená on Bakovský potok, by the road to Ledčice and near a stone bridge with statues. The building sits on a slope above the millrace, with the entrance gate at its eastern corner and the barn facing the road. The grounds are private property, so the complex is best viewed from the road and bridge.

Inside the mill building, a reinforced light pillbox No. 25a of type Z2 was built in 1938 as part of the A-1 Velvary section of the Prague Line of Czechoslovak fortifications. Visitors can spot this atypical military structure embedded in the mill's interior.