MÜHLENTHAL – MILL VALLEY / Ignaz Pagani 1877
Dřevěný pohár – výjevy VIRIBUS UNITIS / hornictví / harfa – zřejmě hudební spolek / oslava a hold životu

Although it doesn't look like it, Jáchymov lies at the confluence of two streams. The Klínovecký stream (Černý) flows into the Jáchymovské stream (Veseřice), which has been flowing under the surface of the town since the sixteenth century, in the spa. In addition to driving wheels for mines, mill wheels also grew on both of these streams. However, the valley between the confluence of the streams and Horní Žďár has long been called Mlýnské údolí (Mühlenthal). You would not only find grain mills here, but also special ones - wire mills and paper mills. In addition to the mills, there was also an amalgamation plant, smelters, a cobalt paint factory, and sawmills. It is necessary to realize that Horní Žďár was the property of Jáchymov, so the mills here are also counted as belonging to Jáchymov. The mills did not grow here all at once, but gradually over the centuries. Moreover, they changed their purpose. A grain mill could easily become a wire or paper mill. Some mills have survived to this day. It's just that they no longer serve their purpose, or we can only find tiny traces of them - drives, foundations
Mills stood on the Klínovecký stream at the very edge of the suburb. It is today's descriptive number 1045 - metal production. A walled opening for the axle of the mill wheel clearly visible in the stream bed has also been preserved here. A little further upstream we find the partly collapsed vault of the drive of an unpreserved mill. On the way downstream we soon find traces of other mills. On the site of today's parking lot under the Radium Palace in front of the original bridge over the Veseřice, the former Panský mlýn (between the Lesní kávárna and the minigolf), the Maderův mlýn (near the villa under the wastewater treatment plant), the Petrův mlýn – the oldest surviving mill in the Czech Republic (later pharmaceutical warehouse or production plant plastics - a ruin under a railway tunnel) with a preserved tub for a turbine, Trinkmühle - a paper mill (today the restaurant U Vlčků) - the local paper was exported to Leyden at the end of the nineteenth century, where it was used to make bank boilers - the paper money of Austria-Hungary. At the confluence of Veseřice and Suchá stream was a wirehouse (preserved drive). A little further downstream - the MUT restaurant - another paper mill was later converted into a sawmill, and another wire mill would be found at the place where the Veseřice flows under the road from Jáchymov (near today's Silo system). The U Václava restaurant in Horní Žďár also used to be a mill, and the Subterra hotel (formerly the Special School) stands on the site of the U Semeráda mill. The peak of the mill business occurred at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but earlier and later mills were located here.
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