Remels windmill
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 Remels windmill |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 18 '28 " N , 7 ° 45' 14" E | |
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| Built | 1803 | |
| Shut down | 1958 | |
| Status | not functional, use as an exhibition room and registry office | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Gallery Dutch windmill | |
| Wing type | Louvre flaps | |
| Number of wings | 4th | |
| Tracking | Compass rose | |
| Website | Web archive ( Memento from July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) | |
The Remels windmill is a two-story Dutch windmill in Remels , the capital of the municipality of Uplengen in the district of Leer ( East Friesland ). It is one of three remaining windmills in the municipality and was built in 1803.
As early as the 16th century, there was a mill in Remels that belonged to the parish. It stood on the church's own property in the center of the village. The current gallery Dutch was built as a successor to an abandoned mill . He had a grinding and a peeling for the production of pearl barley as well as an oil hammer. In those days, the miller was not rewarded with money, but rather received a share of the ground grain, usually one sixteenth of the amount delivered. The amount was not weighed, but measured in a calibrated mattfatt (measuring barrel). For the preacher, the pastor and the sexton, however, according to the poor bill book from 1803 and 1804, the miller had to grind free of charge, and the respective shooter king of the year had the right to have his grain processed free of charge.
In 1847 the mill became the property of master miller Johann Christian Janshen from Westerstede , who had the mill completely rebuilt. In the second half of the 19th century, grain for grinding was not only brought in by land, but also via the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal, which was completed at that time as far as Remels .
In 1902 major renovations took place: the oil blower was exchanged, the codend was exchanged for a compass rose and the sail gate wings for Venetian blind wings. A diesel engine was added to drive the car when there was no wind. From 1950, the expelled East Prussian master miller Fritz Haupt leased the mill. In 1958, one year after the Mill Shutdown Act was passed against the ruinous competition among mills, the Remels windmill was also shut down. Owner Christian Janshen used the mill as a warehouse until 1962, the following year the Remels community bought the property and began restoration work.
The blades of the mill are still functional and turn, the mill technology is still partially available, but not functional. The municipality of Uplengen, the successor to the municipality of Remels, uses the mill as a registry office and for the exhibition of agricultural equipment.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Saathoff: Mühlen in Ostfriesland (series of publications Die Leuchtboje , issue 21), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1979, without ISBN, p. 12.
- ↑ Garrelt Garrelts: Kaspel Uplengen , Selbstverlag, Bremen 2009, p. 132.
- ↑ Gerd Saathoff: Mühlen in Ostfriesland (series of publications Die Leuchtboje , issue 21), Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1979, without ISBN, p. 15.
- ↑ http://www.niedersaechsische-muehlenstrasse.de : Windmühle Remels , accessed on February 19, 2013.