German mill day
The German Milling Day is an action and theme day all about milling and milling in Germany. It was launched by the German Society for Milling Customers and Mill Maintenance and takes place annually on Whit Monday .
Goals and content
The aim of the German Milling Day, together with the protection of historical monuments, is to bring the old cultural technology of milling back into the consciousness of the population and to understand and preserve the mills as a technical monument.
For this purpose, more than 1100 participating windmills and water mills nationwide are open for tours and guided tours on Mill Day and can be experienced as a functioning technical monument . A colorful supporting program complements these activities.
The German Milling Day is usually opened at a selected mill with a greeting from the Prime Minister of the respective federal state. Many mills also offer a program on the Saturday and / or Sunday of the Whitsun weekend before the actual mill day.
history
Ansgar Vennemann, who looks after the Lechtingen windmill, is said to have copied the idea for the mill day in his role as spokesman for the mills working group in the Osnabrück region in the Netherlands. The first mill day at the Lechtingen windmill was celebrated on Whit Monday 1987 . Based on this model, the “ Lower Saxony ” mill day was first launched in 1990 ; In 1994 the first "German" Mill Day took place. The district mill day on Westfälische Mühlenstrasse in the Minden-Lübbecke district , which is celebrated every year on the last Sunday in August, is considered to be the forerunner of the German mill day.
The number of participating mills grew strongly in the course of the first few years: at the turn of the millennium there were already around 1000 mills nationwide, in 2012 almost 1100. The number of visitors is in the hundreds of thousands.
Opening celebrations for the German Milling Day:
- 16th German Milling Day: June 1, 2009, Schrofmühle in Wegberg- Rickelrath in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 17th German Mill Day: May 24th 2010, Logabirum windmill in Leer- Logabirum in Lower Saxony
- 18th German Mill Day: June 13, 2011, Obermühle in Borken- Kerstenhausen in Hesse
- 19th German Milling Day: May 28, 2012, post mill in Lossatal- Kühnitzsch in Saxony
- 20th German Mill Day: May 20, 2013, windmill Johanna in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg
- 21st German Mills Day: June 9, 2014, Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen in Bavaria
- 22nd German Mill Day: May 25, 2015, Mönchhof-Sägemühle in Waldachtal - Vesperweiler in Baden-Württemberg
- 23rd German Mill Day: May 16, 2016, Eisenmühle in Elstertrebnitz -Oderwitz in Saxony
- 24th German Milling Day: June 5, 2017, post mill in Lumpzig in Thuringia
- 25th German Milling Day: May 21, 2018, Lechtingen windmill in Wallenhorst near Osnabrück in Lower Saxony
- 26th German Mills Day: June 10, 2019, Otto Watermill in Abbenrode , North Harz in Saxony-Anhalt
- 27th German Mill Day. June 1, 2020, canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany (planned: Heimsen windmill , Petershagen in North Rhine-Westphalia)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ We in Wallenhorst: 25th German Milling Day on Whit Monday . June 10, 2011
- ^ Mühlenvereinigung Niedersachsen-Bremen: Mühlenland Niedersachsen. Retrieved April 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Participating mills. (PDF) Statistics 1997–2012. DGM, accessed June 10, 2014 .