Tejn stump mill is no longer located on a cliff top in Tejn, but stands in Melsted.
The roof and 3 sides of the mill are covered with shavings, the back of the mill is covered with boards, all lubricated with tar. When the wind direction changed, the entire mill house had to be turned and this was done with the tail on the back of the mill, it was loosened and the mill could then easily be turned by one man if it was well lubricated. The funnel also served as a staircase to the mill house.<\/p>\n\n
Tejn Stubm\u00f8lle originally stood on its four-part mill base until the early 1880s when it was dismantled again, but this time it was due to poor wind conditions. Increased vegetation and development had changed the wind, so the owner, Peter Mikkelsen, had to raise the mill, which he did by building a round foundation for the mill to stand on, which also made the mill bigger. There was also an internal hoist with a hatch in the floor for the bags, where the mill previously had an external hoist, the blades were renovated and improved, and unlike other mills, the blades turn ‘counterclockwise’.<\/p>\n\n
Tejn stump mill was in operation until 1941, when Peter Mikkelsen’s son was forced to shut down the mill due to overgrowth again changing the wind conditions so that it was no longer profitable to continue in the business.
Tejn stump mill is no longer located on a cliff top in Tejn, but stands in Melsted.Tejn stump mill has had a somewhat tumultuous existence. It was probably built around 1800 in Aarsballe, where it was then called Trebene M\u00f8lle. In the mid-1800s, the mill was sold, dismantled and transported to Tejn, where it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,54,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gudhjem-en","category-museums","category-tejn-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n