Windmühle Breberen
Working museum windmill from 1842 in Gangelt-Breberen with Bilau-type sails, run by the mill association in Selfkant.
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Om museet
The tower windmill in Breberen was built in 1842. It is a Dutch-style mill (Holländer) with a wind rose and Bilau-style ventikant sails (Ventikantenflügel), a design with adjustable metal flaps that regulate the rotation speed. Because of these sails, the mill was listed as a technical monument in 1986.
Milling operations ended in 1919, resumed in 1937, and were permanently discontinued in 1961. In 1964 the Kreis Heinsberg took over the building as a museum mill; in 2006 it passed to the municipality of Gangelt. Since then the association Historische Mühlen im Selfkant has looked after the mill; between 2020 and 2022, among other work, the sail cross, the roof sealing, and the wooden beam ceiling were restored.
Today the mill is fully functional and is usually set in motion on Saturday afternoons, generally idling. It is only used for grinding on special occasions such as the German Mill Day (Deutscher Mühlentag) and the Open Monument Day (Tag des offenen Denkmals). The mill is a stop on the Selfkant Mill Road, a cycling route of about 25 kilometers between the historic mills of the region.
Højdepunkter
- Tower Dutch-style mill from 1842 with Bilau ventikant sails
- Fully functional mill, usually in operation on Saturdays
- Grinding demonstrations on German Mill Day and Open Monument Day
- Stop on the Selfkant Mill Road for cyclists
Permanent udstilling
- Museumswindmühle mit Bilau-Flügelwerk – The technically preserved tower mill shows the gearing and sail system and is regularly put into operation.
- Ejer
- Verein Historische Mühlen im Selfkant e. V.
Entrépriser & rabatter
| Grupper (fra 10 pers.) | 2 € pr. personGroup tours from about 10 people via the mill association. |
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Admission is free on German Mill Day.
Tilgængelighed
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Børn og familie
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Transport & parkering
The mill is part of the roughly 25 km Selfkant Mill Road and is signposted with the mill association's signs; the section between Breberen and Haaren is linked to the junction network of the NRW cycle routes.
Planlæg ruteService & spisesteder
Next to the mill is the café aan de Muehle (Waldfeuchter Straße 998).
Arrangementer & udlejning
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Planlæg dit besøg
| Rundvisninger | ja |
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| Godt at vide | Group tours with explanations and demonstrations by advance registration with Rainer Bär, phone +49 2431 971865. |
