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| Coordinates | 53 ° 30 '51 " N , 7 ° 28' 16" E | |
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| Built | 1867/1923 | |
| Shut down | around 1960 | |
| Status | Recommissioned after restoration in the 1990s. | |
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| use | Museum mill | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Earth Dutchman | |
| Wing type | Sail gate wing | |
| Number of wings | 4th | |
| Tracking | Steert and Krojrad | |
| Website | Lower Saxony Mühlenstrasse: Meints Mühle | |
Meints Mühle is a windmill in Tannenhausen , a district of the East Frisian district town of Aurich ( Aurich district , Lower Saxony ). With a height of about 6.5 meters, it is considered the smallest earth Dutchman in Lower Saxony. The neighboring packing house also belongs to the ensemble.
Building description
Meints Mühle is a dutchman with a codend and a krojrad (= device on the back of the cap with which the mill is turned into the wind by hand). The flight , i.e. the diameter of the four canvas-covered gate wings is about 12 meters. They almost reach the ground. The mill has a grist and a motorized grinding gear.
history
The building was originally in Endzetel ( Buttforde ), where it was built in 1867 and used as a grinding and water scoop mill . The master miller Heinrich Meints bought it in 1923 and had it installed in the wasteland south of the large stone grave in Tannenhausen. The plant could be operated with both wind and an electric motor, which was installed as a secondary drive in 1951 and made the mill independent of wind. The mill was shut down around 1960.
Today the mill stands in the middle of a residential area. In the 1990s the mill was in serious disrepair. From the tourist association, which had existed since 1977, the mill, traffic and local history association was founded in 1991 , with the aim of rebuilding and maintaining the Meints mill. The association restored the mill in 1993/1994 (according to other sources in 1995 or 1996) and rebuilt the packing house. The mill is fully operational and is operated by the Tannenhausen Mill, Transport and Local History Association as a museum mill.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostfriesland.de: Meints Mühle . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^ A b German Society for Milling Science and Mill Maintenance (DGM) eV: Windmill Meints Mühle . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^ Rudolf Nassua: Use the wind - The mills in East Friesland . In: Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport. State events office (publisher): Lower Saxony Book 2011 . Hameln 2011. DNB 017491932 . P. 65.
- ↑ a b c d Niedersächsische-mühlenstraße: Meints Mühle , accessed on October 11, 2014.
- ^ A b Ostfriesland.Info: Information about the "Meints Mühle" in Aurich-Tannenhausen . Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^ A b Fritz Arends, Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Tannenhausen, city of Aurich, district of Aurich . Retrieved October 11, 2014.