The mill was initially in the possession of Arnošt Brok and his family, who was at that time bleaching linen for all inhabitants of the Vodňany town. In 1942 the mill was confiscated by the German occupation administration and the Brok family was as other Jewish inhabitants of Vodňany deported to Terezín and then killed off in the Zamošč concentration camp and in the Warsaw´s ghetto. During the war the Wӧlfel family received the mill as a compensation for other estates in České Budějovice.
Later, the mill became the possession of the Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology and was used as the store of fish feed and as the lodging house.
Currently the object of the mill is already fully reconstructed into the International environmental educational, advisory and information center of water protection Vodňany arises there.
