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Brzeźnica, a small village in the municipality of Rudnik, located in the vicinity of Racibórz, can boast of a restored water mill with an extraordinary history in the background. The structure was built in the eighteenth century. At that time, next to a wooden water wheel stood a small wooden building with a stone foundation. In the 1920s, it was dismantled and replaced with one built of red brick. At that time, the mill was owned by the Mik family and operated until its nationalization and final closure in 1946. This place is associated with the German poet, Romantic Joseph von Eichendorff, born and raised in nearby Łubowice. As a young man, the poet fell in love with the daughter of the miller Miller and often visited the mill in Brzeźnica. However, the girl's parents, opposed to this relationship, sent their daughter to relatives in Austria. The consequence of Eichendorff's love sorrow is the poem Das zerbrochene Ringlein (The Broken Ring), which is also known under the second title In einem kühlen Grunde (In a Cool Valley). In the years 1936-1945, Brzeźnica bore the name Eichendorffmühl. Currently, the mill is cared for by the Upper Silesian Center of Culture and Meetings in the name of J. Eichendorff in Łubowice -- it is made available to tourists and is a tourist attraction of the region.
