Via Molina

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Via Molina is the name of a cultural route planned by the Council of Europe .

Purpose of the cultural route

"A European cultural route is a path through one or more countries or regions that deals with topics that are European because of their historical, artistic and social interest, be it because of the geographical route or the content and significance." According to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mühlenkunde und Mühlenerhaltung eV (DGM) , based in Petershagen, this condition would be met by a mill road to which at least three member states of the Council of Europe are connected. Because “Mills in their diversity have shaped European history like hardly any other technical development and were part of everyday life across Europe. With their striking appearance, they also often shaped the landscape from afar. Keeping this from being forgotten and maintaining it is an important concern. "

Therefore, according to the DGM in the mid-2010s, a national “Via Molina” should be set up for Germany and suitable international partners should be sought. In addition, an association was to be established and the European mill culture route “Via Molina” certified.

history

In 2012, Gundolf Scheweling, research assistant at the University of Osnabrück and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Der Mühlstein” (the DGM's association magazine) asked the question: “A“ Via Molina ”in Europe?“ At the general meeting of the Lower Saxony Mills Association -Bremen eV on April 25, 2015, the status of the planning regarding Via Molina was determined: “The founding phase of Via Molina is largely complete. In the future there will be more cross-border connections. This then fulfills the requirement criteria for a cultural route. Three European countries must be connected in accordance with the recognition criteria of the 'Council of Europe' in Mühlenstrasse 'Via Molina'. "

In August 2016, the "AG Via Molina" was founded, in which the national milling associations from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands work together. In a meeting of representatives of the mill associations with those responsible for cultural routes from the Council of Europe on July 4, 2018, it was agreed that Poland should also be included in Via Molina. Other countries have expressed their interest in being included in the project.

The Dutch mill organization “De Hollandsche Molen” self-critically stated in January 2018 that it had “thought about” but not “participated” in the Via Molina project . The "largest mill organization in Europe" promised to get more involved in the project in the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018.

For 2018, DGM received € 90,000 from the European Union for the Via Molina project as a “small project” as part of the “Creative Europe Desk Culture” project “Creative Europe CULTURE (2014-2020)”.

In 2013, Heinz Thiemann, one of the promoters of Via Molina, had the vision that "the common symbol [of Via Molina] will someday be emblazoned on numerous mills across Europe."

“Via Molina” as an addition to the name of regional mill roads

In the Osnabrück / Emsland / Grafschaft Bentheim region there are plans to market the sections of the holiday route “ Lower Saxony Mühlenstraße ” under the name “Via Molina - the street of the mills in Lower Saxony”.

The establishment of a mill road is also planned in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It should be named “Via Molina. The Mühlenstrasse in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ”received. The Mühlenverein Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wants to "initiate a regional cultural route as a first step, which can then be integrated in the national and international context."

Mill routes named by AG Via Molina

  • Historic mill road through Schiedam (Netherlands)
  • Mühlenstrasse Vecht, Amstel and Gein (Netherlands)
  • Along the industrial mills of Overijssel (Netherlands)
  • Westphalian Mühlenstrasse (Germany)
  • Bornholm Route (Denmark)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Projects: Via Molina - European Mills Cultural Route. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gundolf Scheweling: A "Via Molina" in Europe? In: The millstone . Issue 2/2012
  3. ^ Minutes of the general assembly of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Mill Association on April 25, 2015 in Ostgroßefehn . In: The millstone. Regional edition for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Vol. 33 2016, p. 7 ( online , accessed on August 16, 2018)
  4. ^ European Institute of Cultural Routes: Meeting with Via Molina cultural route project (English). Retrieved August 17, 2018
  5. ↑ De Hollandsche Molen: Jaarplan 2018 - Via Molina, Europees jaar van het cultureel erfgoed (Dutch). January 8, 2018, p. 6, accessed August 27, 2018
  6. ↑ Creative Europe Desk Culture. The national contact point for EU cultural funding: Funded projects with German participation in 2018 , accessed on August 16, 2018
  7. ↑ CEDK: Projects in Germany - Creative Europe CULTURE (2014-2020) , accessed on August 18, 2018
  8. ↑ On the way to Via Molina . landeszeitung.de. August 11, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2018
  9. ↑ Albrecht Dennemann: Obergrafschaft part of Mill Street . blixxm.de. November 3, 2016, accessed August 27, 2018
  10. ^ Mühlenverein Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Via Molina. The Mühlenstraße in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Cultural Route of the Council of Europe . Retrieved August 27, 2018
  11. ↑ Via Molina: Routes