Struckmeyer mill
The Struckmeyersche Mühle is a Dutch windmill built in 1878 on the Köthnerberg elevation of the Gehrdener Berg in Gehrden in Lower Saxony . The listed building is opposite the former Lower Saxony mountain inn next to an enclosure for fallow deer .
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Predecessor of today's Mill was built in 1729 windmill . It was created on application for exemption from the mill compulsory through the construction of its own windmill, which the Gehrden magistrate submitted to the Calenberg office in 1726 . After approval of the Royal Chamber, the mill was the stains built Gehrden. To this end, the Flecken committed itself to an annual donation of ten Malter rye to the Calenberger Amtsmühle. By leasing the post mill provided substantial rental income for the area, which amounted to 100 thalers in 1741 and over 160 thalers in 1805.
Today's stone windmill dates from 1878. It is a dutchman with three grinders . The construction was limestone from a quarry on Castle Hill used. The mill is named after the long-time owner family Struckmeyersche Mühle or Struckmeyers Mühle .
Mill operation was stopped in the early 20th century after a switch to motor drive had already taken place. After the building was gutted, it was used as a meeting place for young people. After the Second World War , the mill building served as a storage room and increasingly fell into disrepair. The mill wings were dismantled. From 1994 onwards, friends of the mill collected tools and machines. Today the mill is a children's mill museum.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 33.3 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 11.3" E