Mills of sturgeon
A series of seven post windmills in the village of Störlinge on the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is known as the Mühlen von Störlinge .
The mills are on the east side of the street that runs through the town. It is the longest surviving row of mills on Öland. However, the two northern mills are visually separated from the five southern mills by a plot of land with trees. As in the other areas of Öland, in the course of a strong tradition of self-sufficiency, the mills were only used for the mill owner's own needs.
The center of post mills is a large oak trunk. The mill building itself, including the wings, can be turned into the wind around this trunk.
Like the mills of Lerkaka further south , the Störlinger mill series is one of the landmarks of the island of Öland, the landscape of which is characterized by historical windmills.
About 300 to 400 mills are still preserved on Öland today. This corresponds roughly to the number that existed in the middle of the 18th century. Around 1850 the number of Öland windmills reached its maximum of 2000. The sturgeon mills stand as a preserved testimony to this Öland tradition.
literature
- Andreas Hassler: Sweden Handbook . Edgar Hoff Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-923716-10-9 , p. 266
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Coordinates: 56 ° 48 ′ 35.6 " N , 16 ° 44 ′ 37.8" E