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Stoffels Saw and Mill Museum

Stoffels Saw and Mill Museum

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Stoffels Saw and Mill Museum

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Location: Hohenems, Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria

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Rainer & Petra

October 7, 2022

2,000 years of mill history - unique in the world.
In recent years, interested people from 132 countries on 5 continents have visited this unique mill museum. Great leadership.

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Rainer & Petra

October 8, 2022

Mills are the oldest machines in the world!
The history of the mills begins with the cultivation of grain by nomads who have settled down. Connected to the cultivation of grain is the need for crushing, which was initially done with the help of so-called "grating stones": the grain is ground on a flat ground stone with a second, rounded stone. Around 4000 BC This early grinding stone technique can be traced back to Old Babylon and later also to the Egyptians and Assyrians. At the next stage in the development of grinding technology, there are mortars in which the grain is crushed. From these mortars, so-called trough or hand mills (Querne) gradually developed, in which a turning stone in a uniformly hollowed-out bottom stone is set in rotating motion by means of a handle.
In the next stage of development are mills powered by animal power. The turning or runner stone is equipped with a drawbar and in a perpetual cycle the animal turns the runner stone on the floor stone and grinds the grain between the two stones. Instead of animals, people were often used for this work.

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Location: Hohenems, Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria

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Stoffels Saw and Mill Museum

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