Aalborg Municipality has four historic windmills – Vodskov Mill, Ulsted Mill, Mariendal Mill and Ø. Sundby Mill.
The two last-mentioned mills, which are municipal, are particularly significant and visible landmarks for Aalborg’s southern and eastern districts.
Local mill guilds go and enjoy themselves by keeping Vodskov and Ulsted Møller in a particularly good condition with financial help from the members, municipal pools and private foundations.
At the municipal mills Mariendal and Ø. Sundby, on the other hand, not one krone has been sacrificed for many years, which is why they fall into disrepair more and more.
In stormy weather, the turbines actually pose a potential risk to traffic and the surrounding homes.
In Nordjyske on April 10, we might read that Aalborg Municipality does not want to meet the newly founded Mariendals Møllelaug and take on some minor operating costs.
They would rather sell to a private investor so that offices can be set up in the wind turbine. When establishing office premises, it will be mandatory by law to establish level-free access conditions, toilet facilities and insulation of the mill’s climate shield in accordance with the applicable building regulations. Significant changes that will forever destroy the fantastic cultural heritage that is Mariendal Mølle.
When smaller local mill guilds can succeed in restoring and maintaining their mills, it is incomprehensible to us that a large municipality like Aalborg Municipality cannot.
It is equally incomprehensible to us that Aalborg Municipality does not want to take the mill guilds in Ø. Sundby and Mariendal in hand and together go to private foundations with a request for financial help for much-needed restorations.
Realdania, for example, is a philanthropic organization that works to preserve the Danish architectural heritage, but there are many other foundations that happily help preserve two of Aalborg Municipality’s most fantastic and significant landmarks.
Mariendal and Øster Sundby Møller from respectively 1893 and 1910 must be saved as splendid examples of Danish cultural heritage – not sold to private rich men.
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2024-04-25 11:05:19
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