Free visit of the Guénaudière wine mill

Name: Free visit of the Guénaudière wine mill
Start: 2022-09-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulin cavier de la Guénaudière

The Guénaudière wine mill is the last representative of this type of building in Mayenne. This windmill is built on a cellar which gives it its very particular appearance.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Listed as a historical monument since 1984, the Guénaudière wine mill is the last representative of this type of building in Mayenne. Originally from Anjou, this type of windmill is, as its name suggests, built on a cellar, which gives it its very special appearance.
A sign is available to inform visitors about the history of the mill.

About the location

Moulin cavier de la Guénaudière

La Guénaudière, Grez-en-Bouère, 53290

Mayenne
Pays de la Loire

Raised at the beginning of XIX°, this windmill is the only one in Mayenne to belong to the type of «cavier mills», very common in Maine-et-Loire (see Mozé, la Bigottière). Its superstructures, very damaged, were restored between 1983 and 1988\. The principle of operation of the cavier mill is based on the dissociation of the engine element (wings and transmission shaft) placed at the top and the wheels, placed at the bottom, in the «mass». Hence the characteristic silhouette consisting of a base (vaulted cellar in load piles), a masonry cone (here in rubble) intended to enhance a cabin of wood, or hucherolle, supporting the wings (here in oak with canopies of pine of Oregon) and containing shafts and transmission gears, all of wood.