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Dzieło człowieka pod opieką Boga. Wiatrak z Gryżyny: najstarszy zachowany młyn wietrzny w Polsce i jego symboliczne przesłanie. Wprowadzenie do szerszych rozważań.

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Wyrwa A. M.

Studia Lednickie

2018

vol. 17

27-62

This synthetic article presents reflections concerning the oldest windmill — a windmill on the Polish land, i.e. a post mill (‘koźlak’) from Gryżyna (Kościan municipality, Wielkopolskie voivodeship), which was moved from Gryżyna (fig. 2 and 5) in 1964/1965 to the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica, and its so-called ‘small skansen’ area. In 2017 the funds from The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage allowed a thorough preservation and renovation, and a post mill regained the look from the 18th and 19th centuries (fig. 9). On this windmill’s crown tree a 1585 date (fig. 11, 12) and Latin inscription [ADI]VTOR ET PROTECTOR MEVS ES TV DO[M]I[N]E; signum G, a Latin cross and a carpenter’s sign (fig. 11, 12, 17) were inscribed. The second date was inscribed on a tail beam — 1792 (fig. 14). In order to verify these dates, a dendrological research of an oaken main post (vertical axis) and east and west pine quarterbars was conducted. A broader historical and genealogical research, which unequivocally confirmed 1585 as the time when the windmill was built and its renovation in 1792, was also conducted. These two events were independently credited to the people who accomplished them. The windmill was built in the times of Łukasz Gułtowski and his son Wacław, while a renovation from the 18th century was conducted aft er Gryżyna was bought back by the Wierusz-Kowalski family. A beautiful Latin inscription, which is a paraphrasis of the 27(28) David psalm, gave the windmill under God’s protection (fig. 17). In the context of the content of this inscription, a broad symbolism of the windmills was illustrated in this study.

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Dzieło człowieka pod opieką Boga. Wiatrak z Gryżyny: najstarszy zachowany młyn wietrzny w Polsce i jego symboliczne przesłanie. Wprowadzenie do szerszych rozważań.