Hänigser Bockwindmühle, Post mill in Uetze, Lower Saxony, Germany

The Hänigser Bockwindmühle is a post mill on a slight rise west of Hänigsen, in Uetze. It has vertical wooden cladding, box-like extensions on both sides, and a roof covered with wooden shingles. Inside are a grinding passage and a groat passage; the louvre sails replaced sailcloth sails in 1989.

In 1704 Duke Georg Wilhelm of Celle granted the ducal chief forester Casper Wissel permission to build a windmill at Hänigsen. Mill owners in Burgdorf, Dachtmissen, Uetze and Wathlingen objected to the licence. The post mill itself was probably raised in 1705–1706 on a low rise west of the village, though some accounts give 1704. It later passed through 14 tenants and stood idle from 1864 to 1932.

The mill produces flour for local bakeries that use it to make traditional Hänser bread, keeping the link between milling and community food production alive today.

You can visit the mill during German Mill Day, held each year on the first Sunday of September. Guided tours can be arranged at other times by getting in touch in advance.

The mill's post was originally open and is now enclosed by a built structure. Its present louvre sails replaced the sailcloth lattice sails that turned until 1989, and the site has belonged to an adjacent retirement home since 2008.