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Flour production in 1810

The 1810 document below shows the mill's daily flour production was four hundredweight per day or about 400 kg. Today, more than 210 years later, the mill no longer produces flour, however, barley remains an essential commodity for successful operations on the site.

 

The Moulin de Brotz was a strategic location during the World War 2 resistance.

En 1944, la Gestapo et la milice occupaient le château de Miserai et utilisaient le domaine comme base pour rechercher des armes parachutées sur la zone “Garde”, zone homologuée par le Bureau des Opérations Aériennes (BOA). Le BOA avait été créé par le général de Gaulle pour rationaliser les liaisons entre la résistance intérieure et la France libre et livrer des armes et des munitions. Le 5 Juin, la milice et la Gestapo  cherchant ces armes organisent une perquisition à Miserai. Ne trouvant rien à proximité du château, ils décident d’élargir leurs investigations et, à la pointe du fusil, forcent Mr Judicaël Levesque alors propriétaire du domaine, à les conduire d?abord au moulin et ensuite à la Poussinière, une maison de gardien abandonnée.

Mr Levesque knew his son Jerome who led the resistance in the "maquis de l'Home Chamondot" had hidden weapons in the attic of La Poussinière and somewhere around the mill, he also knew that he would be shot immediately if the Germans found them. Fortunately, Jerome had a hunch and removed the weapons and ammunition from the attic half an hour earlier to hide them somewhere in the nearby woods. To Mr. Levesque's surprise and relief, the weapons were not found. 48 years later, however, in 1992, during the emptying and cleaning of the Brotz lake, several boxes of grenades were discovered in the mud and defused by the demining service.

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