The first known
document mentioning the Meulenhof
dates back to March 2, 1337.
Aa a part of the
Cistercian monastery of Machern,
it was used as a fruit and
mill. In
1802
during the Napoleonic secularization,
like many church properties,
is was passed into bourgeois hands.
In 1804 Johann
Joseph and Bernard Joseph
Schmitges acquired the Meulenhof.