INFORMATION ON THE MILLS IN BRUNNENTAL AND WHO OWNED AND OPERATED THEM: 
(from interviews done with Mrs. Becker in 1978 by Marie (Greenwald) Bandey)
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First printed in the Fall 1993 Issue of the Frank/Brunnental Village 
Newsletter:  To order the newsletter contact: Sherrie (Gettman) Stahl, 
PO Box 540, Manzanita, OR 97130-0540,  Email:  sherriestahl@nehalemtel.net
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Marie:  And the windmills are down here (south) and there were 3 of them?

Mrs. Becker:  South of the graveyard...they were the larger mills, and they 
belonged to....one was Johann Adam Ehlenberger, one was Johannes 
Schauermann, and one was the Mehlinger boys.

Marie:  O.K...The Mehlinger boys...and then you said that Johan Adam 
Ehlenberger had a mill?

Mrs. Becker:  He had to put an engine in his mill, so he could make flour 
when the wind was not going...so he could work everyday.

Marie:  Right...and he always blew the whistle at noon?

Mrs. Becker:  Ya....at noon!!  So the people knew when it was dinner time.

Marie:  Right, and then on the west side of Brunnental...how many mills?

Mrs. Becker:  There were 3 medium sized mills on the west side.  One was my 
Uncle Konrad Gruenwald.  At first it was just a windmill, but later on he 
tore it down and built a steam mill.  They called it the “Firemill”.  It 
was a 2 story mill and it had a wall built in stones.  It blew the flour, 
you know.  It had an engine house, and he had quite a large engine.  It 
used “nef” oil --- heavy oil, you know.  And it had a few windows, but the 
panes weren’t too big.  And another mill on the west side was owned by 
Hardt and another one was owned by Jakob Schauermann.

Marie:  What was Hardt’s first name?

Mrs. Becker:  Henry...

Marie:  Henry Hardt....and then HansKonrad Gruenwald and then Jakob 
Schauermann.

Mrs. Becker:  Ya...

Marie:  And he had a treadmill, you said?

Mrs. Becker:  Ya...Jakob Schauermann had just the horses, and he could use 
the wind, but most of the time, he used the horses.

Marie:  And what about Henry Hardt’s mill?

Mrs. Becker:  Henry Hardt employeed a Catholic man by the name of Turbau 
(?) who was the miller later on.  But in 1907, he had Jakob Spieker working 
in the mill.

Marie:  Who was Jakob Spieker?

Mrs. Becker:  ...that was his son-in-law.  And then there was Jakob 
Schauermann.  He had a mill and in 1900, Meininger was working that mill.  
It was a windmill.

Marie:  And who was the one who made oil?

Mrs. Becker:  Oh yes...that was before the other mills.  His name was 
Kautzer.  It was a small mill, a treadmill and was driven by horses.  And 
he made oil out of the sunflower seeds and hanft.  They raised that hanft 
to make oil out of it.  There was also senyas, they called it, and it was 
kind of a rough plant found in the deserts, and it grows little 
seeds....senya they call it.  And they made oil out of that...those seeds. 
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