Wendhausen windmill
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 The Wendhausen windmill - the only five-bladed windmill in Germany |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 18 '58 " N , 10 ° 37' 58" E | |
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 Germany
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| Built | 1837 | |
| Shut down | 1953 | |
| Status | operational | |
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| use | Flour mill | |
| drive | Windmill | |
| Windmill type | Dutch windmill | |
| Number of wings | 5 | |
| Website | windmuehle-wendhausen.de | |
The windmill Wendhausen in the district Wendhausen the church teaching in Lower Saxony since the 1960s, the only remaining windmill in Germany with five wings. It is therefore also known as a five-wing mill .
history
The windmill was built in 1837 by the Braunschweig publishers Carl and Eduard Vieweg , who wanted to convert a watermill near Wendhausen into a paper mill . The watermill was on the bridge over the Schunter River . In addition, the publisher brothers were required to build a replacement grain mill with the same grinding capacity in the Wendhausen district. Like its predecessor, the newly built mill received three grinding stages . The mill tower of the mill, designed as a Dutch windmill , is 17 meters high. Each of its five wings is 10.45 meters long.
Around 1900 the mill was badly damaged by a storm. The company was initially shut down until it was restarted in 1927 with new technology and an electric drive. When Wendhausen was declared a “National Socialist Model Village” in 1936, the wings were renewed.
The Wendhausen windmill was in operation until 1953. After further damage by fire, storms and after several restorations with funds from the then Wendhausen community, the Braunschweig district and the Volkswagen Foundation , the Lehr community acquired the site in 1980. Since 1983 the association “Association for the maintenance and promotion of the Holländer-Windmühle Wendhausen e. V. “the system as a technical monument .
Current
In 1994 the building was damaged by a tornado . Extensive restoration work began in November 2014 and had to be interrupted in July 2015 due to further storm damage.
On June 24, 2016, the newly renovated windmill was hit again by a storm that destroyed parts of the wind direction tracking system .
Since 2001 the mill has been a branch of the registry office ; However, in 2020 it will be closed due to renovation. The coat of arms of the village of Wendhausen shows the five-wing mill as a coat of arms figure.
Web links
- The Wendhausen windmill on the website of the Friends' Association, accessed on November 18, 2016.
- The five-wing Dutch windmill in Wendhausen on the website of the Mühlenstraße i. d. Mill Association Lower Saxony-Bremen e. V., accessed on November 18, 2016.
- The five-wing Dutch windmill on the website of the Dinslaken Mill Museum, accessed on November 18, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carina Bosse: A real rarity with five wings. In: volksstimme.de. Retrieved November 13, 2016 .
- ↑ DSD provides funds for the Holländer mill in teaching in Lower Saxony. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016 ; accessed on November 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Windmill in Wendhausen: renovation is well on its way. In: Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, January 30, 2015. Accessed November 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Storm damages windmill. In: Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of July 7, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Storm damages windmill that has just been repaired. In: Helmstedter Nachrichten of July 13, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .