Roof mill
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 .
literature
- Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia . tape 8 , p. 619 ( uni-trier.de ).
- CF von Ehrenberg: Baulexikon: Explanation of the technical and artistic expressions most frequently used in the entire building industry . 2nd Edition. Verlag Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1843, p. 119 ( Google Books ).
- Roof mill. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860, Sp. 665 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joachim Heinrich Campe: dictionary of the German language: AE . tape 1 . Braunschweig 1807, p. 665 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Noel Chomel, Gottfried Bürgel: Large and Complete Economic and Physical Lexicon . Verlag Gottlieb Clanner, Leipzig 1750, Sp. 11 ( Google Books ).
- ↑ 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 .