Windmill Goat
The name of this oldest and most popular windmill since the 15th century comes from the goat, i.e. the characteristic base on which the body of the building rested.
The whole structure together with its wings could rotate around a wooden pole, the so-called sztembra, usually supported by four shots. The lower end of the post was stuck in two crossed foundations. The wooden skeleton walls of the windmill were hung on a goat by beams with very large cross sections. Turning the structure so that the wind moved the wings made possible the long drawbar protruding from the back wall, which cooperated with the reel and was moved by the force of a horse or two men. Flour production took place in the middle and upper storey, with millstones, driven by a wooden wing shaft and a pallet-wheel set on it, being at the very top.
In Blumberg, two goat mills appeared after the abolition of the mill law. One of them, mentioned in 1809, could have been a goat mill located at the western end of the village slightly behind the Höpner mill. It is described that a windmill was set on fire in 1897 by an indebted owner in order to defraud the compensation and that this ended in a lawsuit for her.
The second one existed in the southern part of the village and it took the name Mühlenberg (Polish Mokronosy) from it.
The building in Mokronosy still existed after the war and the mill as well as its surroundings, were the place of Sunday’s youth meetings. With time, the structure died and was dismantled, but the remains of its foundations can still be found.
