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JakobusPilger
August 30, 2023
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Long before the discovery of electricity and the associated inventions, our ancestors discovered the possibility of harnessing the power of the elements - which on the one hand were useful, but on the other hand could also be a threat as a force of nature - for various purposes. A suitable example of the human ingenuity of earlier generations is such a mill: the heavy millstones with which, for example, grain was ground into grain or oil was pressed, could be powered with the help of the wind or - as here - water.
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•NancyR-TommyS
September 9, 2020
Cycling
The oldest mention of the mentioned mill is said to date from 1129; according to a thirteenth-century cartulary, Arnoldus de Lombeka in 1276 donated "dua molendina in Molnhem" together with …
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