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Chaos Mill

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Location: Huelgoat, Châteaulin, Finistère, France

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Ein 🐟 namens Wander

August 5, 2023

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Just after the bridge over the dam lake is this mill, built in the 16th century with typical granite stones - one of the gateways to the "chaos", the wild rocks. In the past, it housed a dwelling house and a room in which the mechanisms of the mill were located. It was fed by an artificial lake of 15 hectares which collected the waters of two rivers, including the Fao.

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Théo Moullec

September 15, 2022

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The old mill guards the edge of the forest, embedded between two rocks which keep it from being carried away by the river, which is turbulent at this point.

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JakobusPilger

September 22, 2023

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Many centuries ago, our ancestors discovered the possibility of harnessing the power of the elements - which on the one hand were helpful and useful, but on the other hand could also be a threat as untamed forces of nature - for different purposes and thus did without human or animal muscle power can. Such mills are a good example of the human engineering skills of earlier generations: 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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