Wassermühle Heiligenrode, Historic watermill in Heiligenrode, Germany

Wassermühle Heiligenrode is a five-building mill ensemble at An der Wassermühle 6 in Stuhr-Heiligenrode. The single-storey brick mill house of 1843 holds a bag elevator, hopper, shaker shoe, bags and sieve used to grind flour, semolina, groats and bran. Around it stand the 1829 brick miller's house with a two-storey central riser, the 1750 half-timbered old miller's house, the 1817 baking house and the 1839 timber barn.

The original mill at this site was first recorded in 1182 when Heiligenrode Monastery was established nearby. The brick structure standing today dates to 1843, when it was built to replace the earlier mill buildings.

The baking house of 1817, a timber-framed building with a hipped gable, now serves as the clubhouse of the local heritage association, the Heimatverein. The barn built in 1839 displays agricultural machinery. The former miller's residence of 1829 holds exhibition and meeting rooms on its ground floor and two flats above.

The five buildings stand along An der Wassermühle in Heiligenrode, with the mill house, both miller residences, the baking house and the barn grouped together. The Mühlen-Gemeinschaft Heiligenrode, founded in 1986, looks after the site and its restored machinery. The mill equipment was restored between 1985 and 1993 so that it works as a functioning grain mill.

The mill originally operated with two waterwheels, but in 1936 one was converted into a water turbine that still supplies heat to the buildings today. This adaptation represents an early example of modernizing traditional water power.