Description
Šlyninka Water Mill is a working technical heritage building with authentic equipment. Its history reaches back to the late 18th century, when it was called Ditkūnai Mill and belonged to Livonian land judge Pranciškus Mohlis, owner of Imbradas Manor. The nearby Šlyninka tavern later gave the mill its current name. In the early 19th century, the Butler family of Kvintiškės Manor acquired Ditkūnai and the mill on the Nikaja River. Malvina Marija Butlerytė inherited it in 1886. In 1944 she and her family left for Poland. Following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the mill was nationalised but continued operating. In 1958, rollers made in Zurich were transferred here from the closed Kavoliškės Mill and later restored. The mill used water power until 1960 and has run solely on electricity since 1963. Today it produces heritage flour, groats and bran. At the nearby crafts house, visitors can try traditional rye and wheat bread, pastries and old dishes made from the mill's flour, along with herbal tea, bread kvass and Lithuanian beer. The miller shares lively stories about the mill, while his wife describes how people lived more than 100 years ago.
