Waldemarsudde oil mill
The Waldemarsudde oil mill is a windmill in southern Djurgården in Stockholm . The mill was built in 1784 by master builder Johann Diderick Lundholm. On a plank in the doorway it says “Die. First. Mill. In Sweden. Built and made by master builder JD Lundholm in 1784. “The Waldemarsudde oil mill is one of five still preserved oil mills of its kind in the world and is therefore an important industrial monument.
The mill stands on the Waldemarsudde peninsula south of Prince Eugen's art gallery and was the motif for many of the paintings by Prince Eugen. The mill, built in 1784, was used to produce linseed oil. The oil mill on Waldemarsudde no longer has wings, but is otherwise in good condition. It is an industrial-historical rarity and probably one of the best preserved oil mills from the 18th century. Below the mill is a building painted falun red with large windows, Waldemarudde's orangery .
In the mid-1780s there were two Dutch-type windmills on Waldemarsudde. One was a sawmill that burned down in 1849, the other the still-preserved oil mill. In Waldemarsudde's oil mill, linseed oil was produced from linseed ; the remains were fed to the army's horses. The mill also powered a grater to make pigment colors.
The mill was built with five floors. The ground floor was used for the production of linseed oil, which was cooked in a house next door because of the risk of fire. The linseed was probably kept two flights of stairs up. Leftovers after the first pressing were broken up in three vibrating presses and then crushed in two wedge-shaped presses on the ground floor. The outside facade of the building is clad in copper. From a bridge that went around the mill, you could turn the blades into the wind by means of a rod.
In the 1830s, linseed oil production stopped at the mill and illustrations from the 1860s show a broken wing. The wings were dismantled in the 1870s or 1880s. Prince Eugen's paintings show the oil mill without wings. In 1899 the administration of Djurgården wanted to demolish the mill, it spoiled the area, but Prince Eugene did not allow that and the oil mill was preserved. In 1923 a technical study was carried out by the architect Ferdinand Boberg , together with the Technical Museum . The industrial and historical importance of the oil mill was discovered. In 1953 there was a major renovation by the city of Stockholm. During a renovation inside the mill in 1961, the machines were restored and made functional. The last renovation was carried out in 2010.
Individual evidence
Web links
- "Oljekvarnen på Waldemarsudde" (PDF; 1.1 MB)
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ N , 18 ° 6 ′ 58 ″ E