Füchtelner Mühle, watermill and architectural monument in Olfen, Germany

Füchtelner Mühle is a protected double mill on the Stever northwest of Olfen, with two buildings that once housed an oil mill and a grain mill. Since 1996 the former oil mill has contained a hydropower station with an output of 35 kilowatts, enough for about 130 households. The site also includes the historic ford, the mill cut and the old river course with its island.

Füchtelner Mühle dates from around 1300; Prince-Bishop Otto III of Rietberg had it enlarged into a Landesmühle between 1301 and 1306. Heidenreich von Wulf acquired it in 1362. Floods forced renewal of mill and bridge in 1727/28 and again in 1869; a bridge toll was levied in 1818 for upkeep, three shillings per loaded wagon. From 1955 it ran only as a sawmill, and in 1996 a hydroelectric plant was installed in the former oil mill.

The mill's name comes from Haus Füchteln, the estate bought with the mill by Freiherr von Bodelschwingh-Sandfort in 1826. The two buildings held an oil mill and a grain mill, and the site also takes in the historic ford, the mill cut and the old course of the Stever with its island.

The site sits directly along a river section and is accessible from the road that runs beside the Stever. Visitors should know that water flows year-round and the grounds may become wet during heavy rain.

The mill is a double mill: one building housed an oil mill, the other a grain mill. The protected complex also includes the historic ford, the mill cut used as a mill pond, and the former course of the Stever with its island.