Mill Amanda

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Amanda

Amanda windmill

Amanda windmill

Location and history
Amanda (Schleswig-Holstein)
Amanda
Coordinates 54 ° 39 '39 "  N , 9 ° 55' 34"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 '39 "  N , 9 ° 55' 34"  E
Location GermanyGermany Germany
Built 1888
Shut down 1964
Status Museum, marriage room, tourist information
technology
use Flour mill and sawmill
drive Wind power, steam engine
Windmill type Stone gallery Dutch windmill
Wing type Initially the sail gate wing, later the louvre flap wing, from 1945 to 1964 Bilausche Ventikanten, today the sail gate wing again
Number of wings 4th
Tracking Compass rose

The Amanda mill is a windmill in Kappeln an der Schlei. At 32 meters (cap height 24 meters) it is the highest windmill in Schleswig-Holstein . Next to the mill is a sawmill that is now operated as a “working museum” by the Kappelner workshops .

history

After the old mill burned down, the new mill was built in 1888 for 80,000 gold marks . In 1898 it was acquired by the Hadenfeldt family, in 1964 the milling operations were discontinued and the venting blades were dismantled. In 1976 the town of Kappeln bought the mill and renovated it in 1977. In 1976 it was also listed as a historical monument . It has been registered as a cultural monument since 1990 . In 2007 the upper octagonal mill tower was extensively cleaned.

construction

The nine-story (nine-story) gallery holländermühle is massive up to the mill head. The lower five floors are built in unplastered ocher-colored brickwork, the lowest four as a square, the fifth as an octagon. It supports the wooden gallery and serves as a base for the upper four, also octagonal floors. They form the concave, tapered, with white circular shingle -clad mill tower. The wing cross had a diameter of 23 meters. There was a steam engine for times of weak wind. At first the mill had sail gate wings . Later these were replaced by louvre flap wings . From 1945 to 1964 the mill Bilausche Ventikanten , which led to a tripling of the output. Today it has sail gate wings again.

See also

List of tallest windmills

Others

The wings are illuminated during the Christmas season. You can get married in the mill. The tourist information is located on the second floor.

Web links

Commons : Windmill Amanda (Kappeln)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. picture with vent edges
  2. http://www.muehlen-dgm-ev.de/pages/Detailed/75.php
  3. ^ The Amanda mill: Touristikverein Kappeln.Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  4. Sawmill at the Amanda mill in Kappeln NDR.de
  5. a b c d e report by the former miller Hans Hadenfeldt from December 1983
  6. Brochure on the mill
  7. a b Kappeln Ellenberg: balustrade of the Amanda mill renovated for 46,000 euros
  8. Kappeln harbor at night Schlei Baltic Sea vacation
  9. Getting married in Kappeln total-lokal.de mediaprint WEKA info verlag gmbh