Burkhardtsmühle, Historic watermill in Waldenbuch, Germany

Burkhardtsmühle stands at the mouth of the Reichenbach where it flows into the Aich, on the Waldenbuch municipal area at 340 metres above sea level. It is the eleventh, last and youngest mill of the Siebenmühlental and the only one of the eleven located within a built-up area. Friedrich Burkhardt built it in 1831 as a sawmill with a hemp pulper, and the former railway halt building still stands across the Aich to the southwest.

Friedrich Burkhardt, miller at the neighbouring Untere Kleinmichelesmühle, built a sawmill and hemp pulper at the mouth of the Reichenbach in 1831. The Burkhardt family sold it in 1858 for 3,000 gulden to Adam Kämmerle; Johann Georg Waidelich of Fünfbronn bought it in 1861 for 4,600 gulden. The name Burkhardtsmühle was first recorded in 1893, distinguishing it from the nearby Untere Kleinmichelesmühle, also a sawmill.

From 1985 to 2023 the mill hosted the Swabian dialect stage series "Hannes und der Bürgermeister", after the amateur Komede-scheuer troupe that formed here in 1968 had moved on to the Mäulesmühle in 1974. The building now holds the Greek restaurant Beim Griechen, and the beer garden Waldmeister reopened in 2000 after years of vacancy.

The site functions as a restaurant today, serving Greek and local cuisine to visitors. It is worth checking opening days and times ahead of your visit to ensure the place is open when you arrive.

In 1962 the Baden-Württemberg state criminal police office staged an anti-terror exercise around the mill, filmed as a police training film with the then Federal Border Guard unit GSG 1 taking part. The mill itself stood in for the headquarters of the fictional terrorists.