Germany

Geoff Abbott windmill slides

ABBO
Collection
1960s - 1970s

Images of windmills in England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Abbott, Geoffrey

Windmill Notgeldscheine

ATKI-NOT
Series
1914-1920s, 2011

Part of Fred Atkins Collection

Emergency local currency notes from Germany and Denmark, featuring images of windmills. PDF list.

Atkins, Fred

"Checklist of Notgeldscheine (emergency local currency notes) from Germany, Denmark and Austria issued 1914 to 1922 and showing a windmill as part of the design"

ATKI-NOT-01
Item
2011

Part of Fred Atkins Collection

Atkins, Fred

"Der Retter der Windmuehlen"

CUTT-01963
Item
21 October 2000

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in a German craftworkers' paper 'JOURNAL ALTES HANDWORK' about Wolfgang Basner who restores old windmills all over northern Germany, and had recently built a new mill from scratch. The full article by Andrew Cole is too large to scan in effectively, so only a portion is shown.

"The state of the windmills in the Lower Rhineland"

CUTT-03929
Item
11 May 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the German 'Bergwerkzeitung' newspaper of Dusseldorf discussing the severe technical an d business problems of the milling industry in the Lower Rhineland.

"Repairing old windmill"

CUTT-03930
Item
21 November 1938

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in 'The Star' reporting that Germany's oldest windmill, the 442-year-old mill at Briese in Silesia, is being repaired.

"Last water-windmill"

CUTT-03931
Item
28 September 1936

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Note in the 'Birmingham Evening Despatch' that the last of Germany's water-windmills [sic] at Huemmling in Hanover is too far gone to be preserved and will shortly be knocked down.

"Dybbol Mill restored"

CUTT-03933
Item
nkn

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in a multi-language illustrated magazine showing the mill at Dybbol in Schleswig-Holstein in which had twice been damaged in the wars but now was restored to splendid condition .

"A battered German Observation Post"

CUTT-04224
Item
20 March 1945

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photo in 'The Daily Sketch' showing a very badly damaged tower mill near Xanten that the Germans had used as an Observation Post in their retreat.

"The 'Salisbury Plain' of Germany"

CUTT-04266
Item
4 September 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Photograph from 'The Evening News' showing a Wehrmacht field gun crew taking part in the annual German Army exercises on Luneberg Heath near Hanove, with a typical smock[?] mill behind.

"Sterbende Windmuehlen"

CUTT-04271
Item
26 May 1935

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article [in German] from the Technical Reports in the Weekly Section of the 'Deutschen Bergwerks Zeitung', recording the problem over the cessation in the use of wind power.

Michael Dudley Collection

DUDL
Collection
1994-2004

Photographs of 597 English windmills (with digital copies), 23 Scottish windmills and mills elsewhere in the world. Digital files relating to Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford.

Dudley, Michael

Minden-Lubbecke Mill District "Catalogue to the exhibition in the historical Sanssouci Mill"

EIGH-18-026
Item
c 2010

Part of Brian Eighteen Mill Collection

Describes the Westphalian Mill Road and its mills and sites. Mill Circle (1978) aim is to preserve the cultural in heretence. Battle of Minden (1759) was most significant event of the Seven Year War (1756 - 63) in the Westphalia Region. There are other tourist sites mentioned in this guide.

MuhlenKries Minden-Lubbecke

Historic Sanssouci Mill - Miller and Frederick the Great