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Baltic mill tour

2003

Baltic mill tour 2003
(version 23 September 2002)

The tour will be 8 days long and take place the first week of August 2003 (Sunday, August 3 till Sunday, august 10). It will cover all three Baltic countries and will start and finish in Tallin, capital of Estonia. We will spend two days in Estonia, one day in Latvia, two days in Lithuania, one more day in Latvia on the way back, and the last two days on the Estonian Islands of Muhu, Saarema and Hiiumaa. We will travel by bus, which can take 45 persons plus guides.

The cost will be about 750 Euro (in double rooms), 90 Euro more in single rooms

The price includes bus, ferry, hotels, lunches and dinners.

The trip is arranged in co-operation with a travel agency in Tallin, "Estonian Holidays".

 

An application form will be sent to all members together with International Molinology #65. Applications only by returning this form. Advance applications cannot be accepted.  

 

Preliminary tour description

 

Day 1: (320 km)

We start the tour in Tallin. A bus will be waiting for us at Hotel Viru.

First we go to the open air museum "Roca del Mar" outside Tallin        (10 km)

In Roca del Mar Museum there are 6 windmills and one watermill.       

Then to Rappla, near the town there is a tower mill with cap.   (80 km)

After that we have lunch at the Windmill restaurant in Pölma, interior intact. (10 km)

After lunch we go to Seidla north of Paide to see an intact windmill, no sails. (80 km)

Then we go to Adavere windmill restaurant, with sails, for afternoon tea/coffee (70 km)

After that we go to Tartu to find our hotel   (60 km)

In the evening we look at the windmill at The Estonian Agricultural Museum (0)7-412397 in Ülenurme, Törvandi, near Tartu. A small wooden windmill from Saarema.  (10 km)

(Near Tartu there are two wooden windmills without sails, but with their interior intact.)

We will have dinner at the Powder House restaurant "Püssirohukelder" (Tartu, Lossi 28).

 

Day 2: (320 km)

In the morning we go to Karilatsi                                (40 km)

The Polva Peasant Culture Museum (Põlva Talurahva-Muuseum) in Karilatsi

south of Tartu has 1 windmill.  (Põlva Talurahva-muuseum)  (079)-70310     

In the same area there are two working watermills (Kiidjärve and Rohti).       

Kiidjärve veski, Lembit Torro (079) 92151                     (10 km)

Rohti veski, Aare Sasi, 05185512, (079) 73448.                      (20 km)

(In this area there are many watermills in different conditions.)

Most watermill are nowadays working with electric power produced on the    

site with a microhydro plant.

Lunch in Vöru                                                (20 km)

We look at one more watermill at Lasva outside Vöru.              (20 km)

Then we cross the border into Latvia

Ates watermill south of Aluksne is in working condition.            (80 km)

Then we go via Balvi to Rezekne in Latvia for the night            (130 km)

 

Day 3: (440 km)

In the morning we go to Ludza to see the windmill in the town museum.        (30 km)

This is a very interesting small wooden paltrok windmill under restoration.

After that we go to Felicianova, where there is a working watermill.    (10 km)

Then we go to Jekabpils to see the big wooden paltrok windmill in the open

air museum,   and we also have lunch in Jekabpils                            (140 km)

Outside the town in Boku there is a working electric mill from 1936.     (10 km)

Then we go to Bauska, south of Bauska there are two windmills.                  (210 km)

A wooden windmill with wings, at Berzi, is used today with electricity. (20 km)

At Ceraukste there is a big windmill with its interior intact.                 (20 km)

We stay the night in a hotel in Bauska.

 

Day 4: (260 km)

We cross the border into Lithuania, to visit a windmill at Smilglai.        (40 km)

Then we go to the wooden windmill at Puskoniaii                    (10 km)

After that we visit the brick windmill at Pumpenai.                            (30 km)

And the small windmill on the roof of a shed at Stanioiai.                   (10 km)

Then we have lunch at the windmill restaurant in Panevezys.             (10 km)

After lunch we visit a windmill at Silagailis.                            (10 km)

And a windmill containing a linen museum at Sultiskai.              (20 km)

After that we drive to Rumsiskes.                               (130 km)

In the open-air museum in Rumsiskes there are 4 windmills and 1 watermill.

And in the museum we also will have dinner at an old inn.

We stay the night in different hotels in Rumsiskes

 

Day 5: (410 km)

We go to Pakapomys for a watermill                                     (80 km)

Then to Zibuliai for a windmill                                     (20 km)

Then to Dotnuva for a watermill                                 (30 km)

We pass by the burned windmill at Baisogala

and have lunch at a windmill restaurant in Seduva                            (60 km)

After lunch we visit a working windmill in Pakalniskai.               (10 km)

Then we look at the two stone postmill in Vaskoniai                          (40 km)

A windmill with interesting winding mechanism in  Staciunai.               (10 km)

Pass the mill complex in Pakruojis.                              (30 km)

Look at a windmill in Linkuva.                                     (20 km)

Visit the windmill in Lauksodis                                    (20 km)

And finally we look at a windmill of clay in Melniai.                            (30 km)

Then we leave Lithuania                                           (30 km)

We have dinner and spend the night in Jelgava.   .                  (30 km)

 

Day 6: (500 km)

We go to visit a brick windmill in Platone                      (20 km)

Then we drive to Riga and the open-air museum (Brivdabas muzejs)    (50 km)

In the open-air museum, outside Riga there are 4 windmills and 2 watermills.

We have traditional Latvian food in a new restaurant built like a windmill.

After lunch we go to Araisu windmill near Cesis, a restored working windmill    (80 km)

Then we visit Knideru watermill, still going strong                    (30 km)

Then we look at a wooden paltrock windmill in decay in Lade              (50 km)

and from there we go to a hotel in Pärnu in Estonia                 (270 km)                                  

 

Day 7: (305 km)

We drive from Pärnu to Virtsu where we take the ferryboat to Muhu    (70 km)

The ferry takes half an hour and they serve coffee and snacks

There are lots of windmills preserved on the Estonian islands,

mostly small wooden postmills, some of them even in working conditions.

At Muhu we look at a windmill in Moega,                      (5 km)

another one in Suuremoisa,                              (10 km)

and finally at a windmill museum at Linnuse                            (10 km)

Then we drive across the bridge to Saarema and follow the coastal road,

on the north coast of the island, there are several windmills along that road

We have lunch in Orissare

We look at the windmill museum in Angla with 5 windmills                   (50 km)

Then we continue the coastal road to Mustjala with a windmill,          (50 km)

Pidula with a watermill, to the museum in Viki with a windmill              (30 km)

Then we take a truck to the isolated island of Vilsandi with 4 windmills.         (30 km)

After that we go to a hotel in Kuresaare                      (50 km)

In Kuresaare on Saarema Island we have dinner in an old windmill, now a restaurant

 

Day 8: (250 km)

In the morning we go to Leisi                                     (50 km)

There we take the ferryboat to Söru on Hiiumaa Island.

We look a windmills at Hanu, Jausa, Kaigutsi and Kassari          (40 km)

We have lunch in Käina                                            (10 km)

Then we see windmills at Tubala, Hellamaa and Hagaste          (50 km)

After that we take the ferryboat from Heltermaa to Rohukula

Then we go back to Tallin                                         (100 km)

On the way we pass a wooden windmill in Audevälja

The tour ends in Tallin in the evening.

 

TIMS Baltic tour.

 

I have found people with molinological interests in all tree countries that are helping me to plan the tour. They are in:

 

Estonia:     

Tormis Jakovlev

Lümanda MNT 12-1

Kihelkonna 90401

SAAREMA

 

Home phone 056639669

 

Tormis Jakovlev is working in a local museum, with one windmill, in Viki on the Island of Saarema. He is working on his thesis about the Windmills on the Estonian Islands.

 

Latvia:       

Andris Legzdins

14 Guciema iela 4

Riga, LV-1055

        

Mobile phone (+371) 912 73 12

Home phone  (+371) 7 24 00 84

 

Andris Legzdins is a young person running a company dealing with children entertainment He has restored an old windmill tower of stone and he is visiting and making an inventory of all remaining Latvian windmills.

 

Lithuania:  

Eligius Morkünas

S. Neries 4-6

Rumsiskes

4237 Lithuania

        

Home phone (+370) 56 47247

Work phone  (+370) 56 47469

 

Eligius Morkünas is working at the Lithuanian Ethnography Museum in Rumsiskes outside Kaunas. He is the author of the Lithuanian book about windmills "Vejo Malunai published in 1982.

 

 INVENTORY

In the Baltic countries many windmills and watermills have been destroyed in the last decades. But I think that it is a very good idea to go there now. First of all it might be an opportunity to see Baltic mills before they disappear all together and secondly it might help the work of preservation when people notice our interest in mills.

 

 

BALTIC Mill Literature

 

Estonia:

Vanad Eesti Pukktuulikud. V Fuchs, E. Palmiste, Tallin 1971

Anglan Tuulimyllyjen Vuosisata, Anne Trei, Kuresaare 2000

Vesiveski. Anto Juske. Tallin "Valgus" 1993

 

Latvia:

Senas Vejdzirnavas, R. Purins, Riga 1987

Latvijas Dzirnavas, Arno Teivens, Stockholm 1985

 

Lithuania:

Vejo Malunai, A Andrejevas, E. Morkunas, Mokslas 1982

Technikos paminklai Lietuvoje. Kulturas paveldo centras "Savastis" 1992

 

 My name is:

 Varis Bokalders

Mosebacke Torg 9

116 46 Stockholm

SWEDEN

 

Tel: +46-8-6412902

Fax: +46-8-4620482

Mobile. +46-70-7473095

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