Svanemøllen

[2] In 1855, ten influential citizens from Svaneke and Ibsker founded an association aimed at building a smock windmill.

Bornholm already had considerable experience with smock mills, starting with the one on Christiansø built in 1761.

The association therefore bought a plot of land northwest of the town, not far from the three northern post mills.

Thereafter Hans Anker Kofoed and his son Hans Anker ran the mill until 1920, opening a bakery in 1895 and later adding self-adjusting sails, a self-adjusting yaw system and an engine housed in a little shed northwest of the mill.

In 1958, just before it was going to be demolished, the mill was acquired by Svanekes Venner who subsequently undertook extensive restoration work.