A unique place to visit in Germany
Arrived to participate in the Hannover Exhibition - Gannover Messe.
On the second day of the exhibition, the head of the delegation announced that an excursion to Gifhorn was planned for the evening.
View the International Museum of Windmills and Watermills.
Of course, everyone agreed. Do not sit in the same hotel in the evening.
Briefly about the museum.
The museum is located on an area of about 16 hectares, where 16 mills from 12 countries are represented, as well as
about 50 mill models from 20 countries.
The history of the museum is connected with its founder and owner Horst Wrobel.
In 1965, he discovered an old windmill in the city of Abbenrode (Germany), which was still in operation.
Wrobel built a 1:25 scale model of the windmill and began to collect materials on windmills and watermills.
In 1974, Wrobel opened a private museum in the commune of Sulendorf with models of mills built by him,
becoming the only private German museum included by the German Ministry of Culture in the list of unique places to visit in the country.
In 1977, an agreement was reached with the district of Gifhorn to provide land for a full-scale museum, which opened in 1980.
In Germany, Wrobel is called "Don Quixote in reverse" - "all his life he fought not with mills, but for them. "
The impressions of visiting the museum cannot be conveyed.
The most beautiful nature, a pond, a small river and windmills.
and on the top of some mills, entry and entry to the top (relatively speaking, to the roof).
By the way. There is a Ukrainian windmill "Natasha" here, transferred in 1988 by the Consulate General SSR.
As well as a Russian windmill built in Russia in 2001 and moved to Gifhorn as a gift from the Andrei Rublev Foundation.
If possible, visit.
And if not, see my photos.
I took a lot of pictures. But I don’t post all the photos, as my friends, our delegation, are on them.
And now, friends, on a tour.
We drove this car.
We're going.
The first windmill. And in front of it is a stand on which the description is in German and English. And so everywhere.
Beautiful pond.
And different windmills went on
