International Molinology
Bulletin of The International
Molinological Society
No. 54 June 1997 / summary -
résumé
- Editorial:
by Yolt Ijzerman
Furtunately, the interest in mills and mill protection is still
expanding in the Western world. As TIMS Chairman I consider it useful to participate every
now an than at meetings of national mill organisations outside my own. Recently, from
18-20 April, I attended the National General Meeting of the Fédération Francaise des
Amis des Moulins (FFAM, the Federal French Society of Mill Friends), which was held in
Montbron, in the Charente region. Not less than 170 persons attended this meeting, from
all parts of the vast country. The FFAM today unites about 30, usually regional, mill
organisations with in total about 3000 members. Still more local groups exist. Those who
were aware of the difficulties surrounding the organisation of the 5ht Symposium near
Paris in 1982 will be happy to hear that the interes in mills, as well as the cooperation
between regional organisations in France, has grown substantially since then.
Activities like these (and many more can be found in France) show
that mill preservation today is not similar to activities like those of Don Quixote! On
the other hand, mills are still disappearing in alarming numbers without ever having been
documented at all. A lot of work still has to be done, but it is also encouraging to see
what has been accomplished in the last 10 years!
Original Papers
- Mill Sites in the Valais, Switzerland
by Berthold Moog
| The ubiquitous waterwheel was an indispensable prime mover in Switzerland
also and, elsewhere, the wish to preserve remaining mills as testimonies of the past as
well as tourist objects of interest has increased. An astonishing number of them have been
restored. From the molinological aspect this is of particular value in a mountainous
region like Valais: one can still find here mills of simple structure and machinery
designed just to fulfill their task. The paper points out some of their features, and
gives short descripions of notable preserved or restored mills in this beautiful Swiss
canton. (14 pages and many pictures) |
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- A Turkish Watermill
by Tom Hay
Dalyan, on the south-west coast of Turkey is best known for its
fourth century B.C. rock tombs, the ruins of ancient cavnos and Iztuzu beach, nesting site
of leggerhead turtles. However, eight kilometers to the north east, by the side of the
road to Koycegiz, at Kavak Arasi Köyü, is a working watermill which although modernized
in 1950, retains all in the essential features of the Turkish mill recorded by Castellan
in 1808. (6 pages, pictures and drawings)
- Milling in Norway
by Jens Konsted Lampe
This report gives (originally written in Danish) was first
published for the Danish millers Magazine "Mollen" no. 3512 in January 1995. (3
pages and pictures)
Communications
- Making Incense by Water Power; by Mildred Cookson
A report on China (1 page)
- More on Russion Windmills; by Mildred Cookson (5 pages and many pictures)
- other subjects
* Regional Mill Organisations (UK)
* An American Wind Engine in the Czech Republic; by T. Lindsay Baker
* Mills and Monasteries; by Owen Ward
* Warning forcontacts with Mr. Constantin
* Mill Literature, Book Reviews, Book announcements
* Bibliography: Mill Search in Valais, Switzerland; by B.Moog
* TIMS News
* Obituray to Bradford McGuire
This summary of the 56th Bulletin of The International Molinological Society
has been prepared be Gerald Bost, Berlin. The complete printed version can be
ordered from TIMS Publication Officer.
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