Windmills of Romania


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Remaining Mills

Bucharest (#ro11)

(44.45435,26.0838)
Museum of the Romanian Peasant: post mill :

full size frame of the windmill from Darmanesti (Bacau County), reassembled (without weatherboarding) within the museum gallery "Water, fire, wind".

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Celic-Dere monastery (#ro9)

(45.12711,28.5804)
post mill :

6 sailed

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Museum, Sibiu (#ro4)

(45.75261,24.1121)
Mill from Frecatei, Tulcea: post mill :

6 sails

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Museum, Sibiu (#ro5)

(45.75324,24.1124)
Mill from Bestepe, Tulcea: smock mill : [homepage] [photo]

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Museum, Sibiu (#ro6)

(45.75319,24.1120)
Mill from Curcani, Constanta:

12 sailed

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Museum, Sibiu (#ro7)

(45.75226,24.1120)
Mill from Dunavat, Tulcea:

6 sails

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Museum, Sibiu (#ro8)

(45.75239,24.1123)
Mill from Enisala, Tulcea:

4 sails

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Plaja Sfântu Gheorghe (#ro100)

(44.89703,29.6202)
vertical axis wind turbine:

Built in 70s or 80s for generating electricity. Now dilapidated. Lonely Planet guide book says it only worked for 2 months!

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Saon monastery (#ro10)

(45.21703,28.5419)

4 sailed

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Semenic (#ro101)

(45.18426,22.0712)
4 legged experimental wind turbine:

built in the 1980's, now derelict

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Semenic (#ro102)

(45.18426,22.0703)
single column experimental wind turbine:

built in the 1980's, now derelict

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Semenic (#ro103)

(45.18634,22.0718)
conical bottomed single column experimental wind turbine:

built in the 1980's, just tower left in 2008

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The Village Museum, Bucharest (#ro1)

(44.47442,26.0768)
Mill from Valea Nucarilor, Tulcea:

4 sailed, supported on heaped conical stone base

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The Village Museum, Bucharest (#ro2)

(44.47280,26.0771)
Mill from Sarichioi:

6 sails

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The Village Museum, Bucharest (#ro3)

(44.47336,26.0768)
Mill from Enisala:

small thatched 4 sailed mill on open trestle

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Tulcea (#ro12)

(45.18468,28.7860)

6 sailed

This appears to be a newly constructed building in the shape of a six sailed post mill. (Probably constructed in summer of 2011). I don't believe that it can be turned to face the wind.

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Semenic (#ro104)

(45.18614,22.0711)
3 stage single column experimental wind turbine:

built in the 1980's, dismantled c2012

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91-93 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest (#romock1)

(44.44301,26.0932)
Moulin Rouge: neon sign for nightclub:

Closed down about 2011.

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