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Lille Mølle, Christianshavn
Origin
Mill name	Lille Mølle
Mill location	55°40′10.3″N 12°31′28.3″E / 55.669528°N 12.524528°E / 55.669528; 12.524528
Year built	1783
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Smock mill
Base storeys	Three storey base
Smock sides	Eight sides
Year lost	1909

Lille Mølle (English: Little Mill) is a historic house museum in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a former wind mill that was turned into a private home in 1916. Everything is left exactly as it stood when the house was still lived in and the home is in the same time highly eclectic and typical of its period.

[edit] History

In 1612, Christian IV initiated an ambitious programme for the fortification of Copenhagen. This included ramparts with five bastions, a canal and on the other side some marshy land that was turned into Christianshavn. Since a fortified city needed secure supplies, including supplies of flour and rolled groats, in the event of siege, numerous windmills were constructed on the bastions.^[1]

Little Mill was the last windmill on the old ramparts of Christianshavn. It is a Dutch smock mill erected in 1783 on one of the bastions, replacing a post mill built in 1669. The same year a house for the miller was built in conjunction with the mill and in 1832 the complex was expanded with a four-story steam mill. Together the two mills acted as a grain mill, supplying the citizens of Copenhagen with flour. At the end of the 19th century the mill cap was dissembled and for a while the mill was used by the military for the storage of straw needed for some nearby barracks both as fodder for the horses and bedding for the soldiers whose mattreses needed an occational refill.^[1] In 1909 the steam mill was put out of operation.^{[citation needed]}

In 1916, Little Mill was acquired by Ejnar Flach-Bundegaard, a young engeneer, who turned it into the private home of himself and his wife as well as a small factory, DIAF - Dansk Instrument og apparatfabrik (English: Danish Instrument and Device Factory). Mr. and Mrs. Flach-Bundegaard made their highly eclectic home in the five storey octagonal mill base. The factory was located in the steam mill and a warehouse that has now been demolished on the other side of Christianshavn Voldgade.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] The museum today

Ejnar Flach-Bundegaard died in 1949 and his widdow in 1974. Shortly before her death, she donated Little Mill to the Danish National Museum. and today everything stands exactly as it did when the couple were alive.^{[citation needed]}

Despite not being a typical home, Little Mill is in some ways characteristic of its period, being furnished in a national romantic yet uniquely personal style.^{[citation needed]}

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