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Birkmühle Windmill

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Birkmühle Windmill

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    1. Birkmühle Windmill – Berndt Windmill (Berndt-Mühle) loop from Oderwitz

    6.01km

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    January 15, 2018

    Nice area, very good food, cozy restaurant with garden and the post mill next door.

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      August 24, 2019

      Nice excursion destination for a mill visit with refreshments

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        August 14, 2023

        Today they are hardly ever used in their original function, but only technical and historical monuments of a long tradition of craftsmanship: The heavy millstones inside were moved solely by the power of the wind as driving energy and thus, for example, grain grains were ground into flour (so-called grain mills ) or the oil is pressed from (e.g. olive) fruits (so-called oil mills). Thus, these ancient windmills are the best evidence that humans were clever enough to harness the power of the wind for a number of centuries - long before the discovery of electricity and the inventions that followed. So what is celebrated today as modern (so-called green or renewable) energy is basically just the proverbial "old hat in a new guise".

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          Location: Oderwitz, Görlitz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony, Germany

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