Windmill Pohrsdorf

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The Pohrsdorf windmill was first built in 1847, destroyed for the last time in 1919 and rebuilt as a miniature plant in 2007. It is located in the village of Pohrsdorf , the town of Tharandt in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

Windmill location on the map of Oberreit 1821/22
Photo around 1900
Drawing from 1911
Windmill with showcase 2011

Reasons for building mills

With a petition, the municipality of Pohrsdorf tried as early as 1757 to have the mill compulsory lifted . Because until the first Pohrsdorf windmill was built, the farmers from Pohrsdorf still drove their grain on the Mühlweg, over the Landberg to the mill in Grund near Mohorn . But repeated, summer water shortages in the years 1842–44 at the water mills in the area ultimately led to success.

I. Windmill

In 1847 the miller Johann Christlieb Stelzer built a wooden post mill on a hill (362.2 m above sea level) between Fördergersdorf and Pohrsdorf. But in 1867 this mill was destroyed by a lightning strike.

II. Windmill

The reconstruction, now as a stone tower windmill (also known as Dutch windmill ), is made possible by numerous voluntary donations from the town and the surrounding area. In the years 1873–1916 there was a lively change of owner or tenant of the windmill (Hase, Zänker, Unger, Grütze, Seifert, Lorenz, Junghans, Wolf, Bögelsack, Viertel). In 1886 a lightning strike stunned the miller's boy, but caused no further fire damage and in 1896 the factory was destroyed by lightning under the owner of master miller H. Bögelsack.

III. Windmill

The reconstruction is now taking place with the following technical equipment (according to Obermeister Kirsten, Helbigsdorf ):

  • shorter wings with pull roll device
  • Independent compass rose in the form of a turbine wheel that turns the blades into the wind even when the wind is low
  • Standing iron transmission for power transmission to the machines
  • Roller mill
  • French milling process with pre-cylinder
  • Sifting machine
  • Shotgun for grinding cattle meal
  • Grain cleaning system with pre-sieve, weed separator, pointed aisle, pointed cylinder, magnetic device, pre-squeegee chair and brush screw with ventilation
  • Elevator inside to all floors

In a fire, presumably as a result of the spontaneous combustion of the grain, owned by Gustav Viertel, this windmill was also destroyed on March 11, 1913. In the end, it is used to crush American stone nuts into the well-known flour. In 1919 the mill ruin was demolished by owner Richard Strohbach, who had acquired it in 1916.

IV. Windmill

A Pohrsdorf resident, master carpenter Gottfried Zimmermann, erected a scaled-down version of the third Pohrsdorf windmill in his garden in 2007, next to which a showcase provided information about the history of this Pohrsdorf landmark. It will be presented to the public for the first time at the Pohrsdorf Village Festival in 2007 and has since been signposted from the intersection of Dorfstrasse and Windmühlenstrasse.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 40 ″  E