Greetsieler twin mills
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The Greetsiel twin mills are the landmark of Greetsiel , a district of Krummhörn in East Frisia.
There are two Dutch windmills . They are about 130 meters apart at the entrance to the village east of the old Greetsieler Sieltief . The green, western mill dates from 1856, the red, eastern mill (Schoof's Mühle) was built in 1706 and can be visited. It was restored in 1921 with octagonal parts and the cap from the Aurich Wallmühle built in 1750 .
The green mill
In 1613 there was a post mill at the current location of the green mill . This was so badly damaged in a storm in February 1662 that it was demolished and replaced by a new building. The Grimersum landowner Bussen had this mill converted from 1856 into a two-story gallery Dutch, the most modern development of the classic windmill at the time. In 1857 it started operations and was named Bussensche Mühle after its builder . It was used commercially until 1964 and then for personal use until 1972. In the autumn of 1972 it ceased operations after a wing fracture caused by a storm. In 1975, the then district of Norden acquired the building and, in collaboration with the Association for the Preservation of Greetsiel's twin mills, had it restored and converted into a tea room and picture gallery. In the course of the district reform in 1978, the district of Aurich became the owner of the mill. The district, in turn, transferred it to the Greetsieler Mühlenvereinigung free of charge in 1990. Since the beginning of 2004, after being used as a bookstore, there has been a tea room on the ground floor again.
On October 28, 2013, hurricane Christian tore off the mill's wing and cap, and the gallery and parts of the masonry were also damaged. The mill was not insured against storm damage. The Greetsieler Mühlenverein estimated the cost of the repair to be around 300,000 euros, which should be raised through donations alone. Since September 2014 all orders for the reconstruction of the wings, gallery and cap have been awarded. The repair work was completed in 2015.
Greetsiel twin mills on October 30, 2013
The damaged mill
The "Green Mill" during the reconstruction in January 2015
The "Green Mill" after reconstruction on June 5, 2015
The red mill
A post mill is also said to have stood at the site of today's red mill . There is evidence that an earth Dutchman was built here in 1706 . In 1736 the mill was destroyed by fire and rebuilt as a one-story gallery Dutchman. In 1920 this building also fell victim to a fire. In the following year, it was built as a two-story gallery Dutch with the approximately 200-year-old stud work of the broken Aurich Wallmühle.
In 1950 the mill came into the possession of the Schoof family, who still operate it today and use it to produce meal and flour for the agricultural goods trade using wind and motor power. There is a mill shop on the ground floor of the mill, where regional products are sold. The mill can be visited almost every day. The family runs a café in the former granary, the so-called packing house .
See also
literature
- Walter Norzel, Hartmut Weßling: East Frisian mill book . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-87706-330-6 .
- Lükko Schoof: German mill guide . The Greetsiel twin mills. Booklet 8. Association for the Preservation of Windmills and Watermills in Lower Saxony and Bremen, 1996.
Web links
- Website about the twin mills
- Krummhorn Mill History (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- Video of the collapse of the Green Mill
Individual evidence
- ↑ Distance according to the Google Maps Distance Calculator . Accessed October 30, 2013.
- ^ Association for the preservation of the Greetsiel twin mills The "green" mill , viewed on August 21, 2010.
- ↑ Frank Schoof: The Greetsieler twin mills ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 21, 2010.
- ↑ oz-online.de: Storm "Christian" raged in East Friesland , accessed on October 28, 2013
- ^ NDR.de: Destroyed Greetsieler Mühle opens again ( Memento from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Julia Kreykenbohm: Work should start in November . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung of September 12, 2014. Accessed on September 12, 2014.
- ^ Association for the preservation of the Greetsiel twin mills The "red" mill , viewed on August 21, 2010.
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 51.9 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 59.4 ″ E