The mill corresponds to Dutch models from around 1800. The wooden structures (octagonal support, rotating bell, mill blades and technical mill installations) rest on a brick substructure with a surrounding gallery. Together, the substructure and the upper structure with 13.41 m and 12.37 m high respectively, the mill building reaches a total height of 25.78 m and if the blades are taken into account 35.45 meters at the highest point. The upper structure or head of the mill is shaped like a boat and rests on a rotating rail with iron roller bearings. Below this roof is the 5.5 m main shaft with cataline wheel, to which the supporting cross with its 4 blades (wooden frame sail) of 12 m each are attached. The floor of the surrounding gallery, supported by 32 struts, serves as a working platform for the miller. From there, turn the head of the windmill or also the wings towards the wind, with the help of a winder. These move counterclockwise and can reach a working speed of 15 revolutions per minute and a blade tip speed of 67.8 km/h.[20] The blade cross can be stopped by a beam, at the end of which a chain and rope are attached. This so-called steering stick protrudes from the back of the mill head.[21]​.

The machines found inside, which are powered by wind energy, come from other old mills or were expressly manufactured from existing plans. The function of the single-pass filler mill corresponds to the mode of operation of a small flour mill at the end of the 19th century.[22]​ The grain supplied to the mill is raised to the gallery through an elevator winch and from there to the grinding wheels on the fifth floor. In this grinding floor, the grains are crushed to grinding, or ground between the lower stone fixed to the floor (solera stone) and the stone that rotates above (volandera stone) into flour at 120 revolutions per minute. A large square box surrounds the stones, which have a diameter of 1.35 m. Once ground, the flour is transported through a wooden tube to an "Ascania" type classifier located one floor below, in the room, also called the classifying floor or flour floor. In this two-stage sieve, flour, ground and semolina are sifted and sorted according to size. The fine flour reaches a bag holder by passing through a flour collection screw. The other two, coarser components are packed into bags via a separate bag outlet and returned for further processing and via a bag elevator to the grinding floor. The sifted flours are finally mixed by a screw in the vertical mixing machine, which occupies part of the fourth and fifth floors. Finally, the flour is filled into bags on the sorting floor by means of a discharge hopper.[23]​.

According to a writing from the year 1856 by the historian Franz Kugler), legend has it that Frederick II was bothered by the mill, because he would have liked to include that land in his park. According to other stories, the king would have been angry by the clattering of the mill's wings. When Frederick II had the miller brought in to buy the mill from him, he rejected all offers. It is said that the king admonished him saying: Do you know [...] that I can take away your mill without giving a penny for it? To which the miller replied: Yes, Your Majesty [...] if it were not for the Court of Appeal of Berlin![24]​.

The legend has its origins in a judicial dispute over water rights that had been going on since 1770 between the miller Christian Arnold in Pommerzig), Neumark and his heir, Count von Schmettau: the "Müller-Arnold trial". Having been convicted twice, the miller appealed to Frederick II in 1775, who intervened in the trial on the miller's side. This dispute, which lasted about year, and the story of the Sanssouci miller, Grävenitz, were woven into the legend and intended to show the justice that the king had towards all his subjects equally, without distinction of persons, Frederick II's nephew and successor, Frederick William II., reopened the case in 1786 by decreeing in a cabinet order that […] the decrees of the late king [...] must be considered as the result of an error, to which the "[...] glorious desire for justice of our -who rests in the Glory of God- Uncle and Majesty [was] influenced by incomplete accounts, not in accordance with the true state of things and by misinformed and prejudiced people.".[25]​.

The legend was first published in France in 1787, after Frederick II had died, in an article entitled "Vie de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse" (The Life of Frederick II, King of Prussia) by Jean-Charles Laveaux") (1749–1827). In it, the miller formulates the threat in the following way: Oui, [...] n'était la chambre de justice de Berlin[26]​ (Yes, [...] if the High Court in Berlin did not exist). Different versions of this legend would later appear, both in Germany and France. Among others, an abbreviated version appeared in 1788 within the work "On Frederick the Great and my conversations with him shortly before his death" by Dr. Johann Georg Zimmermann.[27] And in 1797 the anecdote "Le Meunier de Sans-Souci" written in verse by the playwright and lawyer François Andrieux. The answer given by the miller: Oui! si nous n'avions pas des juges à Berlin[28]​ (Yes! If we didn't have judges in Berlin) is presented here in the form of the famous phrase Il ya des juges à Berlin (There are [still] judges in Berlin).[29]​ Later the comedy "Le moulin de Sans-Souci" emerged from the French playwright and librettist Michel Dieulafoy (1762–1823) "Der Müller von Sanssouci" ("The Miller of Sanssouci") can be found in other literary works to this day, and has also been filmed and performed as a play, such as Karl Goepfart's comic opera (1907) and Peter Hacks' comedy (1958).

A replica of the historic Sanssouci windmill can be found at the International Wind and Water Mill Museum in Gifhorn.

Coordinates: 52° 24′ 14.8″ N, 13° 2′ 8.1″ W.

The mill corresponds to Dutch models from around 1800. The wooden structures (octagonal support, rotating bell, mill blades and technical mill installations) rest on a brick substructure with a surrounding gallery. Together, the substructure and the upper structure with 13.41 m and 12.37 m high respectively, the mill building reaches a total height of 25.78 m and if the blades are taken into account 35.45 meters at the highest point. The upper structure or head of the mill is shaped like a boat and rests on a rotating rail with iron roller bearings. Below this roof is the 5.5 m main shaft with cataline wheel, to which the supporting cross with its 4 blades (wooden frame sail) of 12 m each are attached. The floor of the surrounding gallery, supported by 32 struts, serves as a working platform for the miller. From there, turn the head of the windmill or also the wings towards the wind, with the help of a winder. These move counterclockwise and can reach a working speed of 15 revolutions per minute and a blade tip speed of 67.8 km/h.[20] The blade cross can be stopped by a beam, at the end of which a chain and rope are attached. This so-called steering stick protrudes from the back of the mill head.[21]​.

The machines found inside, which are powered by wind energy, come from other old mills or were expressly manufactured from existing plans. The function of the single-pass filler mill corresponds to the mode of operation of a small flour mill at the end of the 19th century.[22]​ The grain supplied to the mill is raised to the gallery through an elevator winch and from there to the grinding wheels on the fifth floor. In this grinding floor, the grains are crushed to grinding, or ground between the lower stone fixed to the floor (solera stone) and the stone that rotates above (volandera stone) into flour at 120 revolutions per minute. A large square box surrounds the stones, which have a diameter of 1.35 m. Once ground, the flour is transported through a wooden tube to an "Ascania" type classifier located one floor below, in the room, also called the classifying floor or flour floor. In this two-stage sieve, flour, ground and semolina are sifted and sorted according to size. The fine flour reaches a bag holder by passing through a flour collection screw. The other two, coarser components are packed into bags via a separate bag outlet and returned for further processing and via a bag elevator to the grinding floor. The sifted flours are finally mixed by a screw in the vertical mixing machine, which occupies part of the fourth and fifth floors. Finally, the flour is filled into bags on the sorting floor by means of a discharge hopper.[23]​.

According to a writing from the year 1856 by the historian Franz Kugler), legend has it that Frederick II was bothered by the mill, because he would have liked to include that land in his park. According to other stories, the king would have been angry by the clattering of the mill's wings. When Frederick II had the miller brought in to buy the mill from him, he rejected all offers. It is said that the king admonished him saying: Do you know [...] that I can take away your mill without giving a penny for it? To which the miller replied: Yes, Your Majesty [...] if it were not for the Court of Appeal of Berlin![24]​.

The legend has its origins in a judicial dispute over water rights that had been going on since 1770 between the miller Christian Arnold in Pommerzig), Neumark and his heir, Count von Schmettau: the "Müller-Arnold trial". Having been convicted twice, the miller appealed to Frederick II in 1775, who intervened in the trial on the miller's side. This dispute, which lasted about year, and the story of the Sanssouci miller, Grävenitz, were woven into the legend and intended to show the justice that the king had towards all his subjects equally, without distinction of persons, Frederick II's nephew and successor, Frederick William II., reopened the case in 1786 by decreeing in a cabinet order that […] the decrees of the late king [...] must be considered as the result of an error, to which the "[...] glorious desire for justice of our -who rests in the Glory of God- Uncle and Majesty [was] influenced by incomplete accounts, not in accordance with the true state of things and by misinformed and prejudiced people.".[25]​.

The legend was first published in France in 1787, after Frederick II had died, in an article entitled "Vie de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse" (The Life of Frederick II, King of Prussia) by Jean-Charles Laveaux") (1749–1827). In it, the miller formulates the threat in the following way: Oui, [...] n'était la chambre de justice de Berlin[26]​ (Yes, [...] if the High Court in Berlin did not exist). Different versions of this legend would later appear, both in Germany and France. Among others, an abbreviated version appeared in 1788 within the work "On Frederick the Great and my conversations with him shortly before his death" by Dr. Johann Georg Zimmermann.[27] And in 1797 the anecdote "Le Meunier de Sans-Souci" written in verse by the playwright and lawyer François Andrieux. The answer given by the miller: Oui! si nous n'avions pas des juges à Berlin[28]​ (Yes! If we didn't have judges in Berlin) is presented here in the form of the famous phrase Il ya des juges à Berlin (There are [still] judges in Berlin).[29]​ Later the comedy "Le moulin de Sans-Souci" emerged from the French playwright and librettist Michel Dieulafoy (1762–1823) "Der Müller von Sanssouci" ("The Miller of Sanssouci") can be found in other literary works to this day, and has also been filmed and performed as a play, such as Karl Goepfart's comic opera (1907) and Peter Hacks' comedy (1958).

A replica of the historic Sanssouci windmill can be found at the International Wind and Water Mill Museum in Gifhorn.

Coordinates: 52° 24′ 14.8″ N, 13° 2′ 8.1″ W.