Scholten mill
| Scholten mill
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 Scholten-Mühle 2016 |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 46 '12 " N , 6 ° 24' 40" E | |
| Location |
 Germany
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| Built | 1848/49 | |
| Shut down | 1964 | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Wall Dutch | |
| Wing type | Vented edge swing stern wing | |
| Number of wings | 4th | |
| Website | http://www.scholten-muehle-rees.de | |
The Scholten mill in Rees is one of the last remaining windmills with “ Bilauschen Ventikanten ” (after Kurt Bilau ).
Built in the years 1848 and 1849 as a Wallholländermühle in brick construction with an entrance for carts. It has been in family ownership since 1870. Since only girls were born over several generations, the name of the mill changed from Hermanns- to Rosenbaum- and finally Scholten-Mühle through marriages. In 1885 a 12 HP steam engine was installed in an extension on the mill tower as an auxiliary worker when there was no wind. The steam boiler and the 12 m high chimney were in a building east of the mill. Around 1914 the steam engine was replaced by a gas engine, which was in operation until the early 1950s. In September 1937 the sail gate wings were replaced by eleven-meter-long Ventikanten rotating stern wings. They were shortened to 9.50 meters in 1941. In addition, the Scholten mill received a self-turning system with a compass rose. So the canopy with the wing cross no longer had to be turned into the wind with the codend.
Although the mill suffered many small bullet holes in World War II, it was one of the few mills on the Lower Rhine that was able to continue its work after the end of the war. After the death of Johannes Scholten in 1963, the mill was shut down. After two mill wings fell in a storm in 1994, the mill threatened to deteriorate further. Therefore, the listed mill was extensively renovated from 1995 to 2001. It received, among other things, four new Ventikanten swing stern wings, a new compass rose and a renewed interior. On the eighth German Milling Day on Whit Monday, June 4, 2001, the winged cross started moving again for the first time in almost 40 years.
The Scholten Mill can be visited as part of public tours and private tours. She participates in the German Milling Day every year.
