Publication:

Das Schicksal der Windmühlen in unserer Landschaft

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    English titleThe fate of the windmills in our countryside
    Authors & editors

    Suchatzky, Werner [Author]

    Publisher Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
    Year of publication 1979
    Languages

    German (main text)

    Medium Book
    Edition1
    Topics

    Wind & watermills > Other Europe (not GB) > Germany, Austria & Switzerland
    Arts, culture and heritage > Drawings, paintings & photography

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    Scope & contentSummary Translation
    A book of drawings done between 1957 and 1974, but mainly in the early 1970s, of 56 windmills of different types in the Braunschweig region.The book starts with a general introduction about mills, followed by descriptions of postmills, Dutch mills and paltrock mills, and a labelled cross-section diagram of a postmill, and an unlabelled cross-section and ground plan of a Dutch mill.The rest of the book consists of the drawings, with a history and description of each. A fold out map at the end shows the location of each of the mills illustrated.This copy is signed by the artist.

    Copies held

    Accession no. 229840

    • Shelf location: C114-SUC
    • Donor: Michael Dufau
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