The creation of the mill in Stary Wielisław on the river Bystrzyca should be connected with the foundation of the village under German law at the turn of the 14th century.
The first preserved sources mentioning the mill come from 1357. From the very beginning the mill belonged to the village leader (who was called "free-judge” in the County of Kłodzko ). From the document issued in 1419 we learn that the judge’s estate in Wielisław included rented hectares, and “the manor with his craftsmen: baker, shoemaker and blacksmith”. A document from 1429 mentions also the mill and tavern as a part of his estate. The mill in Wielisław, as belonging to the judge, was mentioned even in 1497. Hilbrand Kauffung was the owner then.
In the first half of the fifteenth century the mill had two owners: hereditary judge and Ratold, the owner of the village. In 1435 a document was made which shows that Jan Heinrich promised to pay off Hans Bertholsdorf. In 1437 the two co-owners agreed that Ratold would give Jan a half of the mill and additionally 2 fines of rent in belonging to him Jaszkowa Górna (Ober Hennigsdorf). John Heinrich gave Ratold about 8.4 ha lying below the mill in Wielisław instead.
Documents from the sixteenth century (from 1534 and 1571) mention a mill in Wielisław as belonging to the castle of Kłodzko. Equipped with two wooden wheels the mill belonged in a third to the miller who had profits connected with it (rye and wheat). However, he had the duty of giving 2 pigs "from St. Michael's to Easter", for which he received a payment from the castle.
In 1575 the mill with the entire village was given to Augustinian order in Kłodzko. In the sixteenth century it was in the hands of new owners of the village – Jesuits. Latter, in 1769, they sold it to the private person.
Because of his craftsmanship the miller belonged to the richest and the most prominent inhabitants of the village. He had the right to keep part of the money for grinding grain. Having mill was associated, however, with certain duties. Every year, the miller had to give some flour to the teacher. The document from the purchase of the Upper Court in Wielisław from1820 mentions that the miller should take care of the bridge across the river ditch leading to the mill next to the chapel (the material he received from the court). He had to maintain in proper condition the track to the mill and to strengthen the banks of the river.
In 1800, Thadeus Lachnikt, the owner of the mill and local lands set a new, bigger and brick chapel, in place of the small one. On the right side of the main entrance to the local parish church the epitaph of his wife is set. She died in 1807.
At the turn of the century the mill was in the hands of the Schindler family, a profession passed on from father to son. The miller was the initiator of the reconstruction of the chapel – mausoleum in the years 1904 – 1907, which was demolished because of the construction of the railway line Kłodzko – Kudowa.
Before World War II there was the bakery in the building next to the mill. It worked until the forties of the twentieth century. Currently, there is a grocery here.
translate: D. Jabłońska