The castle mill in Reifenthal We walk for about half an hour, then we approach Reifenthal Castle. A castle? Where might it be? We see a handful of houses, but nowhere anything about a stately castle building. Inquiries in Reifenthal don't bring us much further either. But there must have been a castle here, because it is so strongly rooted in the consciousness of the old people that it cannot be based on imagination or just a legend. Then we find the confirmation in old files of the archives and in the specialized literature. There the castle expert "Werner Bornheim called Schilling" tells us that Reifenthal Castle was a castle-like complex that had long since perished, of which only a few meager remains of walls are left on the eastern slope above the passing Hunsrück Heights Road. The construction of the vanished castle is attributed to the Counts von der Layen. They also built the castle mill, which was popularly called the Count's Mill. From this mill, fief contracts from the 17th and 18th centuries can still be found in the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, with which the counts granted the milling rights to tenants. Johann Morschhäuser, a forefather of today's owner Mathilde Escher, was a grinder for the Layen lords and later bought the castle mill from them for 300 thalers.