You are cordially invited on a journey “from grain to loaf”, which begins in a room with original mill machinery from 1890 and a replica of a water wheel measuring more than 6 meters. During the tour, you will listen to old stories about how flour was produced, see the famous antique bread oven and the beautiful Feast Hall with photos of old Czerniawa-Zdrój. In addition, you can stroll around the mill in the Garden of Plants and Herbs and see the stream that powered the mill wheel. This is a great opportunity to move back in time, when great value was placed on flour production and bread baking.

The watermill in Czerniawa-Zdrój was built around 1890. Its basic equipment is original and dates from the period of construction. The mill is a typical example of construction that was erected in the Silesian-Czech borderland. The machinery and equipment in the mill are typical of farm mill equipment from the turn of the 19th/20th century. They were built in the so-called American system, in which grain transport was completely mechanized. The mill had a water-wheel, overhead wheel drive with a diameter of 6.5 meters until 1951. After that time, the mill operated thanks to a drive from an electric motor.

The facility, known as the “Black Mill,” is an open-air production museum known as the Bread Museum, where visitors can observe the cycle of flour and bread production in workshops. In the Bread Room, we can see a 100-year-old bread oven, in which bread is still occasionally baked to this day. In addition, a modern workshop kitchen was built in 2010-2012, where bread is baked daily.

The Historical Hall houses the first level technological equipment. Until around 1951, the mill had a water-wheel, overhead wheel drive, the rotation of which drove the shaft, and this drove belt drives to the various mill machinery and equipment. Unfortunately, in 1951 the wheel’s axle was damaged and as a result work was halted for several years. In 1957, a spring flood also damaged the damming weir on the Black Creek and the mechanical ponds. In 1957, Piotr Pietrasz attempted to start the mill and used a drive from a post-German electric motor.

Currently, water circulates in a closed circuit. The wheel is made of 150-year-old larch wood. On the walls and in the corner of the room you can see the preserved original elements of the old wheel. The wheel presents outstanding historical and technical values. It is among the unique pieces of equipment of this type, of which only a few have survived to this day. Elements of the old roller have also been preserved and are part of the museum’s exhibition.

Technological Hall – among the machines and equipment located on 4 floors in the production part are: a creamer, a kneader, a grinder, elevators, a grain hopper, wooden tubes with a bagger, a horizontal mixing room, silos – grain tanks, an aspiration cabinet, a grain winnower, a sifter – sorter. The production capacity of the mill reaches 1.5 tons of flour per day. The fact that they come from one time and are complete raises the historical and technical value and constitutes the uniqueness and uniqueness of the Devil’s Mill. The results of the mill’s work are the following products: flour, semolina and bran; all depending on what grain is milled.

The mill is also one of the stopping points on the tourist trail “Traces of Jizera Mysteries”, and you can get information on all the tourist attractions of the area.
In 2010-2012, the mill lived to see a revitalization, thanks to which the building was completely renovated, and the machinery and equipment in it were restored. A huge success is the launch of a water wheel. A shed has also been built, under which a grill with a grate and chimney has been constructed. The mill’s specialty is bread baked in a new oven, served with lard and pickled cucumber or freshly beaten butter.

The facility is adapted for people with disabilities.

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