Guided tour of a fortified mill

Name: Visita guiada a un molino fortificado
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Moulin fortifié du Mayne

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, come and visit the fortified mill of the castle of Benauge.

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

©Annette Pezat

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, come and visit the fortified mill of the castle of Benauge.

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About the location

Moulin fortifié du Mayne

33760 Arbis

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

This unassigned building belongs to the municipality. It is a fortified mill of the castle of Benauge. Discover a murderer dating from the 13th century, a cross pattée against the escape channel protecting the sensitive part of the mill. A massive valve with two shovels blocked the water of the river of Saint-Pierre-de-Bat, retained by a strong dike. The level was then pushed back into the arrival channel, falling on the impellers and troughs according to the times. This mill operated until the middle of the 20th century. All the industrial elements are in place (except the wheels that were destroyed): millstones, stem, blutoir, bluteau, various cogs including those that allowed the transport of flour from the millstones to the blutoir, thanks to small buckets.
You can discover the miller’s house next to the mill, probably after the Hundred Years War and the plague, when the Gavaches came, with its chamfered, chimneys, stone sinks.
A boxwood alley, probably dating from the fifteenth ce