Rekumer mill

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Rekumer mill

The Rekumer Mühle is a windmill in Rekum in the Bremen district of Blumenthal . Since 1973 it has been listed as an individual monument in the state monument list of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Unlike four other well-preserved windmills in the city of Bremen, the mill is not a station on the Lower Saxony Mill Road .

history

A mill in Rekum, probably a post mill , has come down to us in 1430.

The existing Dutch windmill was built in 1873. In 1925 some changes were made to it. After the First World War the switch to motor drive took place. After the cap was destroyed in the February storm in 1962 , the mill head and the wings were torn off. The mill was restored until 1967/68, but was no longer used productively. In 1989/90 the Reith was re-covered and in 2001 the wings were renewed.

The position of the unsailed mill wings in an angled cross signals in the “ mill language ” from afar: “End of work” or “Out of order”.

Construction, technology

The Rekumer Mühle is a Wallholländer type windmill in the special form of transit Dutch . The octagonal base is made of clinker bricks. The mill body and cap are covered with Reith . The wind direction tracking of the four wooden sail gate wings is done by hand with the codend . During the renovation in 1925, they were replaced by a compass rose and wings with metal blinds. After the storm damage, the first construction method was restored.

The mill has two grist passages and one passage for the production of fine flour. The largest of the six millstones is 1.80 meters in diameter and weighs almost three tons.

Web links

Commons : Rekumer Mühle  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ a b Documents in the archive of the “Heimatverein Farge-Rekum” u. a.
    • “Contract” dated December 1, 1872 between the mill master JH Meier from Harmenhausen and the Vollhöfners Diedrich Bischoff and Friedrich Töllner zu Rekum on the construction of the mill.
    • Approval of the Royal Prussian Landdrostei in Stade on March 13, 1873 for the construction of the mill.
    • Photos and written reports.
  3. ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 47.6 ″  E