Stroiter mill
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 Stroiter mill, back |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '31 " N , 9 ° 52' 18" E | |
| Location |
 Germany
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| Built | 1850 | |
| Shut down | 1960 | |
| Status | functional technical monument | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Gallery Dutch windmill | |
| Wing type | Sail gate wing | |
| Number of wings | 4th | |
The Stroiter Mühle is a windmill east of the village of Stroit near Einbeck in the Northeim district . The structure is the southernmost windmill in Lower Saxony .
Geographical location
The windmill is located in the Leinebergland on an exposed hill between the Hils ridge to the west and the Selter ridge to the east . It is about 240 m above sea level. NN and is therefore the highest windmill in southern Lower Saxony . The building is not far west of the B 3 .
description
The Stroiter windmill is a brick building with 4 floors and a height of about 22 m. The type of this mill is a gallery Dutch , i.e. H. with rotating hood and all-round balcony. The floor plan is 16-sided. The performance of the mill is remarkable: in addition to the two grain grinding aisles, there is also an oil gallery and a barley gallery. The building is a listed building.
A silver Dutch windmill is shown in the local coat of arms of Stroit.
history
buildings
The grain from the surrounding area had to be brought to Greene or Voldagsen for grinding until the Stroiter mill was commissioned , where water mills typical of the region were in operation.
The history of the mill location near Stroit begins in 1842. Müller Grote from Bierbergen married in Ahlshausen and then applied to Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig in 1842 to build a mill on the Rotenberg near Stroit. The Brunswick Ministry approved the mill construction and Grote built a post mill . This wooden structure burned down in 1849.
Müller Grote immediately built a new mill on the same site, this time made of solid bricks, which was finished in 1850. Grote had got into debt through this construction. He emigrated to Hancock in the USA, from where he handed over the business to his son in 1864, but who was unable to pay off the accumulated debts. Thereafter ownership of the mill changed several times. In 1872 Müller Fesing from Lebenstedt bought the mill. In 1905 a second line shaft was put into operation. Müller Woitag from Silesia bought the mill in 1906. Since 1930 the mill worked without wind with an electric motor. Around 1960 the company was shut down because the miller had no more work.
restoration
Since then the mill has been threatened with decay, so that a development association has been looking after the mill since 1982. Well-known supporters of the diverse work include a. the Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape , the monastery chamber of Hanover , Carl-Ernst Büchting and August Wenzel . A milestone in the restoration was the assembly of new wings in 1998.
Regular events
The building is opened to visitors annually on the German Milling Day and the Open Monument Day .
literature
The windmill in Stroit, in: Historical mills and their technology, edited by Rüdiger Hagen, 2004, p. 70