Onderste Molen/Commandeursmolen

A little more downstream is the Onderste mill, also known as the Commandeursmolen. That name is derived from the Commandeur. That was the leader of the monastic order Malthezer Commandery. Initially it was a grain mill, later just a paper mill until that part was destroyed by fire in 1874.

The current brick mill building must have been built in 1876. Unfortunately, it proved impossible to make white paper anymore because the Geul was seriously polluted by the zinc and lead ore mines in Bleyberg. As a result, the company, which managed the mill and paper industry, went bankrupt.

After the public sale, the paper mill was converted and modernized into a flour mill. After the Second World War, use declined. Until, in the 1970s, the demand for traditionally ground wheat and baking rye flour increased. The mill is in full use to this day.