Roof mill

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Østerklit Stokmølle

The roof mill was a special type of mill that was installed in, on or on the roof of a house . These small mills were usually driven by wind power, another variant was the drive through the use of attached weights. Roof mills were used to replace hand-driven mills and thereby make work easier and faster, and roof mills were also used instead of horse mills . The small roof mills were mainly used to operate grinding mills .

Roof mills were also used to some extent to extract salt . Installed on the roofs of the graduation houses , they drove the pumps that were responsible for lifting the water.

The last working Danish wind-powered roof mill is Østerklit Stokmølle in the north of Vendsyssel .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Joachim Heinrich Campe: dictionary of the German language: AE . tape 1 . Braunschweig 1807, p. 665 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. Noel Chomel, Gottfried Bürgel: Large and Complete Economic and Physical Lexicon . Verlag Gottlieb Clanner, Leipzig 1750, Sp. 11 ( Google Books ).
  3. Mill . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 11:  Matelica – Nishnei-Kolymsk , self-published, Altenburg 1860, pp.  507–508 .