1. Die Steinmühle
Die Steinmühle wurde 1303 als Getreidemühle von den Zisterziensermönchen aus dem Kloster Zinn erbaut und von diesen betrieben. Bis 1766 wurde die Mühle als Getreidemühle genutzt, bis der damalige Mühlenmeister eine Genehmigung zur Anlegung einer Schneidemühle (Sägewerk) erhielt.
1845 wurde sie wieder abgerissen und danach als Ölmühle wiederaufgebaut. Ende 19. Jahrhunderts wurde auf Dampfkraft erweitert und die Mühle zur Strohpapierstoff-Fabrik umgebaut. Sie wurde auch weiter als Dampfmühle genutzt. 1918 firmiert die Mühle als „G. Thiele Steinmühle“. Inhaber war Emil Gericke, der Schwiegersohn von G.Thiele. 1934 wurde die Dampfmaschine durch einen Motor ersetzt und die Mühle vergrößert.
Former Mitropa company laundry in Hohenschönhausen
At Goeckestrasse 32-34 in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, in the middle of a residential area, there were factory buildings that were demolished in 2016. Until 1937 there was an undeveloped factory site of the Kilian machine works, whose factory building was in the neighboring Werneuchener Straße at the current location of the Philipp-Reiss School from 1977. In 1937 the Mitropa AG laundry was built on the site. It was located on an industrial siding on the Tegel-Friedrichsfelde industrial railway. The factory buildings of Kilian and Mitropa were largely destroyed in World War II. The industrial siding was shut down after 1945 because it ran through the neighboring Stasi restricted area of Hohenschönhausen.
A storage area and wood office were set up on the cleared site. Plant III of the VEB plant for signaling and security technology in Berlin was built on the property around 1960. This was where the prefabrication, electroplating and paint shop of the main factory in Elsenstrasse was. 1991 WSSB Berlin was sold to Siemens AG. In addition to modernizing Elsenstrasse, Siemens also invested several million DM in modernizing the location in Goeckestrasse. Investments were made in a new hall, modern machine tools and a paint shop. But after a corporate strategy change to “focus on the core business”, the location was sold in 1994 to a medium-sized entrepreneur from Cologne, who had to close the plant in 2001 due to declining orders. A commercial yard was then established on the site. The most important employer was the Pro-Blech company, founded by former Siemens employees. In 2016 the property was sold, the halls demolished and apartments built on.
