PAST AND PRESENT

The Buskovsky Mill was founded in the second half of the 16^th century near the town of Sobotka, by the Klenice stream, situated in a beautiful landscape of the southern part of the Bohemian Paradise. In the written medieval records is stated:

„The Honorable Mr. Voldřich Rozendorf from Špremberk, at the time working as a clerk at the Kost castle, on Monday after St. George in 1580, he bought for himself and all his heirs a mill called Buškovský, from Adam who was the miller of Mlejnek and all this for 200 threescore Bohemian groschen...Actum ut supra.“

After many centuries and many generations of millers, in 1911 the water mill was bought by a farmer and later on the city mayor of Sobotka, Mr. František Balák. The last miller who stayed here was Mr. Miroslav Bobek. During the time before the Second World War, the mill had a wood-fired bread oven, in which were baked 4kg loaves of bread. After the war in 1953, the mill was nationalized, handed over to the Collective Farming, later to the State Fisheries, and from 1964 the mill was uninhabited. The mill remained abandoned for several decades and gradually began to decay.

Since 1984 the water mill has changed several owners. During this period, a large reconstruction of the whole property took place. Another significant milestone in the history of the Buskovsky Mill was the year 2021. As the mill came into the hands of the first real baker since the Second World War. Since that moment, we have achieved to breathe new life into the mill. We have managed to recover the tradition of bread baking and to revive genius loci of this unique place.

On 28^th October 2022 the water wheel was officially put back in place and set in motion. The traditional oven was put into operation and after almost one hundred years, the first bread was baked again.