Buying a mill for sale in Bas-Rhin (67) means choosing an Alsatian department crossed by the Ill, Bruche, Zorn and Moder rivers, whose waters long powered watermills for flour, flour mills and fulling mills linked to the textile industry of the Bruche valley. On this page, ma-propriete.fr brings together the mills for sale in Bas-Rhin: half-timbered watermills to restore, former flour mills converted to other uses, and millers' houses with outbuildings.
You will also find price benchmarks, based on regional trends, an overview of the areas where these properties are concentrated, and the specific points to check before buying a mill. To prepare your project, read our guide to buying a country house in France, whose advice on old buildings, outbuildings and financing applies fully to a mill.
There are no official statistics dedicated to mills: sales are too rare and too varied (a ruin to restore, a habitable mill, a flour mill with a turbine). The most reliable market benchmark remains the price of country houses, which a habitable mill resembles, with a premium for the water, the character and the water rights, and a discount for the work required.
DVF statistics (the French land-value database) do not cover Bas-Rhin: in Alsace-Moselle, sales are recorded in the Livre foncier and are not published in the DVF database. The benchmarks below are therefore those of the Grand Est region.
How much does a country house cost in Grand Est? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Grand Est stood at €150,000 in 2025, with an average price of €156,757 and a median price of €1,400/m² of living space (7,886 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). 10% of houses sold for less than €70,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €255,000 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house offers 112 m² of living space on an average plot of 2,025 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
The region is well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the regional median price has risen from €136,400 to €150,000, i.e. +10.0%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +4.2%.
| 2025 indicator | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|
| Median price | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 7,886 | 150,313 |
A regional average also hides large gaps between municipalities. A smallholding to renovate, a restored longère with its outbuildings, a farmhouse on several hectares of land or a manor house with parkland do not sell at the same price, and the location matters as much as the building: coastline, tourist area, peri-urban countryside close to a job market or deep countryside. The table below shows the median price of country houses in Grand Est by type of municipality (cumulative sales from mid-2020 to 2025) and its change between 2021 and 2025.
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist coastline * | €145,000 | €1,282/m² | -23.7% | 32 |
| Residential coastline | €140,000 | €1,354/m² | -17.9% | 565 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €137,462 | €1,350/m² | +14.6% | 1,622 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €165,000 | €1,529/m² | +6.2% | 22,855 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €125,500 | €1,178/m² | +7.4% | 23,366 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Grand Est, the municipalities classified as "coastline" have no access to the sea. They are municipalities bordering lakes of more than 1,000 hectares (or, in Eure, the Seine estuary) covered by the 1986 Loi Littoral, which also applies to such inland lakes and estuaries.
These benchmarks help you assess a listing, estimate a property before putting it up for sale, or set your budget, whether you are looking for a holiday home, a permanent move to the French countryside or a property to turn into a rural gîte. To go further, see our observatory of country house prices in France (national, regional and departmental analysis, downloadable annual report) and work out the full cost of your purchase, including French notary fees, with our notary fees calculator.
Bas-Rhin is watered by the Ill, which flows through Strasbourg and Sélestat, by the Bruche, which comes down from the Vosges towards Molsheim and Wasselonne, and by the Zorn and Moder rivers in the north of the department. Along these rivers, many watermills for flour were built, often in typical Alsatian half-timbering, along with more industrial flour mills in the 19th century, some of which gave their name to towns such as Molsheim (from the German ' Mühle ').
The Bruche valley, around Schirmeck and Wisches, also had fulling mills linked to the textile industry that developed there. Windmills, on the other hand, are practically absent from Bas-Rhin, since the Alsace plain and the Vosges foothills offered enough rivers to favour water power everywhere.
The Bruche valley, around Molsheim, Mutzig and Schirmeck, concentrates former watermills valued for their Vosges foothill setting and proximity to Strasbourg's TGV station. The Kochersberg area and the surroundings of Wasselonne offer more rural mill buildings, while Alsace bossue, around Sarre-Union, remains a less sought-after area but rich in small mills to restore. To the north, the Moder valley, around Haguenau, completes the regional offering. Buyers should also expect competition from local Strasbourg-based professionals seeking a countryside second home within easy commuting distance.
Areas close to Strasbourg and the wine route, in high demand, command prices notably above the regional average. Conversely, Alsace bossue and the north of the department remain more affordable for a watermill to renovate, with interesting upside potential. The strong economic pull of the Strasbourg conurbation, boosted in part by the European institutions based there, keeps demand steady across the department's older buildings.
Check the existence and scope of the water rights (a mill fondé en titre or holding an authorisation), the condition of the millrace, weir and sluice gates, and the ecological-continuity obligations on the Ill, the Bruche and their tributaries, several of which are classified for migratory fish. Original water wheels and millstones, where they survive, are a heritage asset, but restoring them has a cost; a hydroelectric project (turbine, micro-plant) requires a prior technical and administrative study.
As for the building, Alsatian half-timbering requires particular attention to damp at the bottom of the valley, flood zoning and the condition of the timber frame. Outbuildings (barn, former workshop) make it possible to plan a gîte, a tourism activity well established in a Bas-Rhin that is visited year-round, especially around Strasbourg. It is also worth checking whether the building carries a historic-monument listing, not unusual for notable half-timbered Alsatian mills.
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