Work of Évron’s sculpture workshop - moderator: Rachel Launay

Name: Trabajos del taller de escultura de Évron - animadora: Rachel Launay
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulin du Petit-Gohard

Open doors of the Petit Gohard mill (wheel room) and exhibition of sculptures in the old pile room of Rachel Launay’s Evron workshop

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Rachel Launay

Open doors of the Petit Gohard mill (wheel room) and exhibition of sculptures in the old pile room of Rachel Launay’s workshop. Exceptionally, for the European Heritage Days, the Petit-Gohard, one of the 17 mills on 22 remaining in Sainte-Suzanne opens its door. You will be able to admire the paddle wheel launched in 2013 in the room of the wheel, today entrance of the mill and admire an exhibition of sculptures of the workshop of Evron in the old room of the piles where the paper was made for the industry of the playing card, after making flour and before making tan for the skins. It should be noted that the Petit-Gohard mill has been mentioned since 1408 and that it closed permanently as a mill in 1930, then after a long abandonment that led it to ruin it is being restored.

About the location

Moulin du Petit-Gohard

7 chemin des Moulins, 53270 Sainte-Suzanne

Mayenne
Pays de la Loire

If today, the Petit-Gohard mill has become a dwelling house, its paddle wheel restored and shed testifies to its long history of hydraulic plant. Mentioned in 1408 as a wheat mill, it was rebuilt at the beginning of the eighteenth as a paper mill, then under the authority of the prefect of Mayenne converted into a tan and tannery mill in 1871, He served until 1930 before being converted into a water plant, and especially before a long abandonment of 60 years. The recent restoration saved him from inevitable ruin and had the support of the Heritage Foundation. Private building, it is only occasionally visited for heritage days and mills.