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
Etiquetas
Édifice industriel, scientifique et technique, Édifice rural
©Annette Pezat
