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Internationales Wind- und Wassermühlenmuseum

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    English titleInternational wind and water mill museum
    Authors & editors

    Wrobel, Horst [Author]
    Wrobel, Rosita [Author]

    Publisher Internationales Wind- und Wassermühlen-museum, Gifhorn
    Languages

    German (main text)

    Medium Book
    Edition1
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    Scope & contentSummary TranslationA guide to the International Wind and Water Mill Museum in Gifhorn in Lower Saxony, to which the contents of the Suhlendorf museum were moved in 1980. The new museum contains not only models made by the founder, but also reconstructed mills.The guide is an expanded version of the Internationales Mühlenmuseum, Suhlendorf (Suhlendorf International Mill Museum) brochure (qv). It starts with a history of the museum, and photos of newspaper cuttings about the originator, and moves on to a brief history of the development of mills, a list of the uses to which mills are put, and cross section diagrams of various types of windmill.The main part of the guide consists of photos of mills from Germany (8), the Soviet Union (Ukraine) (2), Romania (1), England (1), Ireland (1), France (2), Spain (2), Egypt(1), Iran (3), Austria (2), Yugoslavia (Serbia) (1), South Africa (1), Portugal (1), Greece (2), Netherlands (7), Belgium (1) and Sweden (1). There is also a photo of a generic model of a floating mill. The final photo is a water mill from the Austrian Tyrol, and the penultimate page has a cross-section diagram of a water mill and diagrams of three types of water wheel.Under each photo is a caption. Some of the captions refer to the specific mill illustrated, while others are generic. Some of the mills are unusual or unique, including the combined water and wind mill at Hüven; a windmill powered sawmill in Koog an der Zaan; a wind powered mill in Khorasan province in Iran which has a vertical rather than a horizontal shaft, like a revolving door; the only windmill in Austria, at Retz; the last surviving windmill in Wexford, whose sails – possibly uniquely - turn clockwise; a windmill from the Alexandria region of Egypt, one of the oldest in the world; a peg mill from the Black Sea area of Romania.The book ends with details of an association of friends of mills. The covers feature pictures of two named German mills with brief histories of their ownership. On the inside front cover are four diagrams of the positioning of windmill sails to convey messages, with explanations of what they mean.

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    • Shelf location: W10_WRO
    • Donor: Ken Major Collection