German Wind Power Museum

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The German Wind Power Museum (until 2019 Mühlenheider Wind Power Museum ) is a museum that opened in 1998 and is located in the East Westphalian municipality of Stemwede , district of Oppendorf . The museum is dedicated to the history of modern wind power use , especially the German one. It is supported by a registered association (eV) in which interested parties from the wind energy sector and other industries are active on a voluntary basis. The association currently consists of around 200 members (as of 2016). With around 20 different wind turbines from Germany and other European countries, including around ten open-air exhibits, it is Germany's only wind power museum, but also one of the largest collections of wind turbines in the world.

Core tasks

The core tasks of the museum result from the statutes of the sponsoring association:

The purpose of the association is to promote art and culture.
The purpose of the statutes is achieved in particular through the establishment and maintenance of systems that show the development of electricity generation from wind power from the beginning to the present. For this purpose, documents, written material and machines from the commercial past and present are collected.
Organization of information events for school classes and other youth groups.
Cooperation with the Mühlenverein Minden-Lübbecke e. V. as part of the mill days.

The association was founded in March 1999 and has since worked on securing historical wind turbines and documents of various kinds for the past 30 years. He sees it as his task to "secure the historical roots of modern wind energy use in Germany, to document them and make them accessible to the public".

exhibition

Ten restored wind power exhibits can currently (as of 2019) be viewed on the museum grounds. Most of them are German brands. The system range extends from a few kilowatts to 150 kW.

The following exhibits have already been set up:

  • Dornier 5.5 kW (Pellworm test field 1980)
  • MAN Aeroman 12/20 (20 kW)
  • Krogmann 15/50 (50 kW)
  • Lagerwey LW 10/35 (35 kW) (Origin: Netherlands)
  • Husum shipyard HSW 30 (30 kW)
  • Elektromat wind power center (12 kW)
  • Bosman wind pump (origin: Netherlands)
  • Nordex N27 / 150 (150 kW, origin: Denmark)
  • FH Wiesbaden Trebur (university project)
  • Köster Adler 25 (165 kW, rotor blade )

Furthermore, there are more than ten different wind turbines of different types, sizes and origins in the museum's own warehouse. These exhibits are also being prepared for permanent exhibition in the museum.

Until 2019, the museum and sponsoring association operated under the name Mühlenheider Windkraftmuseum . The current name should do justice to the international orientation of the museum.

Operation of a megawatt system

In 2014, the association acquired a 1.5 MW Tacke TW 1.5 wind turbine from the energy supply company RWE . The WKA belongs to the pilot series of the first 1.5 MW system that Tacke produced in 1996/97 and is located at the Stemwede-Drhne site . After the takeover, the plant was freed from technical problems and has been producing electricity ever since.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Altegör: scene of the mill history . In: Bundesverband Windenergie e. V. (Ed.): New energies . Berlin December 2015.
  2. ↑ Mühlenheider Windkraftmuseum e. V. Articles of Association . Lemförde July 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ About us. In: deutsches-windkraftmuseum.de. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ exhibits. In: deutsches-windkraftmuseum.de. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Deutsches Windkraftmuseum eV Accessed on December 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tacke 1.5MW in early retirement . In: Verlag Natural Energies (ed.): Windkraft Journal . Seevetal February 2015.
  7. ↑ Tim Altegör: scene of the mill history . In: Bundesverband Windenergie e. V. (Ed.): New energies . No. 2015-12 . Berlin.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 10.1 ″  E