Aner watermill
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 41 '32 " N , 18 ° 46' 2" E | |
| Location | to Slite , Gotland , Sweden | |
| Built | around 1890 | |
| Shut down | around 1945 | |
| Status | restored, ready for use | |
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| use | Grinding mill | |
| Grinder | 2 × grinding | |
| drive | Watermill | |
| water wheel | 1 × undershot | |
The Aner watermill ( Swedish Aner vattenkvarn ) is located on the Swedish island of Gotland . It is one of the mills on the Anerån river between Othem and Boge. It was built around 1890 and was in service until the mid-1940s.
The mill has a wheel about six meters in diameter. Since the amount of water in the Gotland rivers is not large, mills are equipped with so-called lower fall wheels, which means that the water hits the wheel blades in the lower part of the wheel. A dam was built close to the mill to hold water. There are double pairs of millstones in the mill house. A short mill ditch was built to operate the mill, the water of the ditch and the river feed a pond below the mill, from there the river flows a few hundred meters to the mouth in the Boge Bay of the Baltic Sea . The mill, moat, dam and ramparts have been restored by the local history association. Today the mill still grinds in April and October. In the past, grinding was done during spring and autumn when there was enough water.
Mills were an important factor in Gotland's self-sufficiency . They existed on one farm or another. Today most of them are closed or partially derelict. Water mills and windmills have existed since the Middle Ages . In the middle of the 17th century there were 134 mills on the island. In the south there were mainly windmills. The number of mills increased significantly in the mid-19th century after government supervision and taxes on milling ceased to exist. In connection with the drainage of the moors , the requirements for the operation of water mills often disappeared. Instead, mills were built that were powered by steam, electricity or combustion engines. Some windmills have been restored and have even been back in operation for a number of years. An example is the windmill on the road to Faludden , which grinds all year round.
location
The mill is located in northeast Gotland , near Lake Bogeviken and Boge Church , 3 km west of Slite , 29 km northeast of Visby and 10.5 km east of Tingstäde .
Web links
- guteinfo (Swedish)
- Othem-Boge hembygdsförening ( Memento from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
literature
- Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland Culture Guide 1993 ISBN 91-88036-09-X .