Due to the preserved technical equipment, it has been recognised as a technological monument of the 19th century, and thus, has historical and scientific values.

History

The post windmill was built around 1854 in Warsaw in Wola district, where windmills worked until the launching of Michler’s steam mill. A defunct post windmill was bought in 1916 by a miller from Linin, Stanisław Klimek. He transported the mill by the Wilanów Rail to Góra Kalwaria. In 1917 it was reassembled with the help of a carpentry master Stanisław Rimmel in place of the previous post windmill in Linin that had burned down in 1915. In the 1920s it was the only working windmill within the radius of 30 km. Closed down in 1940, it resumed production after the end of the war. It ceased working in 1951 after the props had broken.

In the years 1960-1980 the equipment was partially disassembled and the roof cover was replaced. The miller’s son carried out the stocktaking of the post windmill, along with its equipment, in 1984. Already in 2001 a nearly complete propelling mechanism and two sets of millstones with grain cleaning and flour sieving devices were in place.

Description

The windmill is located on the southern edge of Linin village, within the apple orchard, approx. 100 m from the buildings belonging to owners and approx. 300 m from the Pęcław-Wincentów road. The building has no basement, was founded on a small, artificial elevation, on stone foundations under the post structure and a brick underpinning.

The body of the building is vertical, slightly narrowing upwards, covered with a gable roof with a clipped gable on the windward side, covered with spruce shingles. The gable of the roof is covered with herringbone weatherboards; on a roof ridge there is a steel pennant with SK initials and dates of construction (1854) and restarting (1917) of the windmill.

A load bearing structure made of pine wood with large profiles. Walls made of wood, erected in a frame structure, weatherboarding with boards laid vertically on the butt; additionally, a windward façade the weatherboarding is doubled by shingle cladding. Side façades include partially preserved weatherboarding. The frame of walls is a protective structure suspended on ceiling beams and a load bearing structure, to allow rotation towards the wind. Currently, the post windmill is motionless and faces south-west with its front (windward) wall. Initially, the windward wall included blades that propelled the mechanism. Currently, only the main shaft protruding from the gable has survived. The leeward façade includes entrance door on the ground floor. Damaged stairs and platforms on the second and third storey make it impossible to access the building’s fittings.

The interior of the windmill has three storeys; on the ground floor there are ground plates arranged in the shape of an isosceles cross; the main structural post with a circular section is planted on their intersection. It reaches up to the level of a horizontal beam, supported by four braces (posts). The posts include elements of a fifth wheel; beams of vehicles lay on them, divided by oak pads, embracing a post;

they constitute the main rotating mechanism of the windmill. The main post (sztember) supports a horizontal beam (mącznica) on the second storey, which supports the grinding mechanism of the horizontal beam.

Flour grinding mechanisms are located on the third storey as well as a horizontal shaft of props. Currently, firewood is stored inside and around the neglected windmill, which obstructs the internal fittings.

Limited access to the historic building. Private property — the structure can be viewed from the outside.

Compiled by Anna Dymek, Regional Branch of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Warsaw, 03-11-2014.

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