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is a settlement of wide scattered farms with about 10 inhabitants.
Florentin Theodor Schmidt, who was a sugar manufacturer in Wunsiedel,
about 1813 built a cottage solitary in the woods and
as an hommage to his betrothed Juliane he named it "Linnenhain".
It became the
germ cell of the scattered settlement which rises bit by bit.
Uncommon for our region was a wind-mill, which existed until the middle of the present century. There was manufactured bone-meal. Nearby there is the "Ruggenmühle" (Ruggen-Mill), a formerly water powered mill, hidden idyllic in the woods. It was mentioned first in 1499. The present building was built about 1770 by the miller Johann Jakob Vogel. The old-German mill mechanism worked till 1955 and is preserved completely. |
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