Lower Saxon Mill Road

The Lower Saxon Mill Road (German: Niedersächsische Mühlenstrasse) is a holiday route that guides visitors to watermills and windmills in the north German state of Lower Saxony and thus links the interests of historic monument conservation with those of the tourist industry.

The Lower Saxon Mill Road also has windmills without sails and watermills without water wheels.

This society had the aim of restoring windmills and watermills in its area, which initially covered the districts of Lüneburg, Harburg and Lüchow-Dannenberg, and supporting their preservation.

The society also declared that it wanted to foster and preserve the traditions and culture associated with the milling trade.

For that reason in 2004 leadership of the project was transferred to the statewide "Lower Saxony and Bremen Mill Association" ( Mühlenvereinigung Niedersachsen-Bremen).

With the conclusion of the EU Sponsor Programme for the Development of Typical Rural Areas in August 2006 further expansion into the remaining Lower Saxon districts was temporarily halted.

In that year the districts of Cloppenburg, Oldenburg and Vechta joined the Lower Saxon Mill Road.

The section in the "Oldenburg Münsterland and Wildeshausen Geest Region" was officially opened on 28 May 2009 at the Neumühle ("New Mill") in Endel (in the municipality of Visbek).

A grant of €9,800 is anticipated from the Lower Saxon State Department for Geographic Information, Land Development and Property.

Also on the site is a village square (the Dorfplatz) with Lower Saxon houses and a Russian stave church.

37 The Garlstorf windmill is a Galerieholländer with a two-storey brick base and a four-storey, very narrow, slate-covered octagonal millhouse.

Current state of the mill: The cap is covered with wooden shingles and equipped with an additional gallery.

The cast iron shaft head (Wellenkopf), which has been drilled through, indicates that originally the mill had spring sails.

The breastpiece (Bruststück) and the rods of the present sails are made of multilayered spars held together by steel clamps.