🍀Turks and Tatars - The Low Windmill from Enisala, Tulcea County

     The windmill from Enisala stands slightly awkwardly, like a crane on one leg, leaning on a pole of stone and wood. The need to place the system capable of capturing the driving force as high up as possible led to the mill being placed on this circular stone plinth with an oak dial on which the mill house rotates. With a massive skeleton of oak beams, evenly covered with pine planks, this small construction impresses with its ingenious simplicity. In contrast to the storey mills, here we find only one room housing a single grinding machine. 
     The wind energy harvester has four wings attached to solid spokes, which run along the outer end of the axis (the mill's drive shaft). 
     The windmill from Enisala came to the museum in 1966 and is one of 437 such installations that operated in Dobrogea from the 16th century until the second half of the 20th century.  The photo gallery features recent images from the museum, as well as from Enisala in the late 60s.