"On the weekend I was in Duisburg to see again the group “Yamato – The Drummers of Japan”. On Saturday afternoon I strolled in search of a café through the pedestrian zone that had nothing appealing for me: lots of concrete, lots of plasters, little green, many snacks of every Couleur, lots of fast food. And then a large coffee grinder on a wall of the house, on the front wall of the “Caféhaus Dobbelstein” on the Sonnenwall. When I entered the café at about 17.00, I was very kindly told that the café is closing. On my question as to what the coffee mill has on the wall of the house, the nice lady said: “You can look around here, in the back of the café there are hundreds of coffee mills and the largest coffee mill in the world!” Of course, I didn't say that twice. I was even allowed to photograph. And how true! All the walls of the rear rooms are decorated with new, old and very old coffee mills, beautifully arranged, made of porcelain, made of wood, hand mills, wall mills, some porcelain mills beautifully decorated, some quite simply in white, mills from England, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Turkey, all privately collected by the Dobbelstein family. Around 700 out of more than 1,000 can be seen here in the café house. Impressive! However, the world's largest coffee mill with a height of 2.50 m and 450 kg is most noticeable. Otto Dobbelstein made them build in 1998 because he wanted to go to the Guinness Book of Records. And the best is, this mill even works! She can grind 50 kg of coffee beans. However, this is rarely done, because this handy meal on such a huge coffee mill is probably very exhausting, consuming and associated with a lot of running work. This company was founded in 1858. If I'm in Duisburg the next time, I'm sure I'm going to drink coffee and eat cake and look at this beautiful coffee mill collection."
Duisburg
