Brauerei zur Malzmühle

This guide to Brauerei zur Malzmühle in Cologne opens with Margaretha Schwartz taking over the family brewery after her husband's death in 1912 and running it alone for a decade while the men of the trade waited for her to fail. It traces the mill that stood on this site since the 1570s, and the Schwartz family's brewery built over its remains at Heumarkt number six. The guide follows the house through World War Two, when British bombs flattened it in 1945, and asks who would be the one to rebuild it this time.