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„You are beautiful, Great Hungarian Plain, beautiful at least to me!”

Visiting (wind)mills

in Bács-Kiskun

The history of the mills in Hungary dates back many ing structure powered from below. The walls of the
centuries, and there are written records of mills in Bács- mill, which used to have three levels, were built from
Kiskun County from historical times. Some of them adobe bricks. The windmill was renovated in 2020 and
have long disappeared and can only be found in histori- it could be visited again from the summer of 2021.
cal records, and some of them can still be visited today. Felsőszentiván: Home of the windmill that still
A good few of them are already monuments, but there operates today
are also some that are still in operation. In Felsőszentiván, Bács-Kiskun County, the windmill of
Kiskunfélegyháza: Pajkos-Szabó Windmill the village was rebuilt to revive the miller’s profession,
The landmark of Kiskunfélegyháza, the Pajkos-Szabó and its blades are still rotating proudly. The windmill of
Mill, which was built on the Kis Mindszenti Road, on the Felsőszentiván was built at the end of the 19th century
outskirts of Félegyháza in 1860, and where the grain of along the main road no. 55 connecting Alsónyék and

the inhabitants of the area was ground, is beautiful again. Szeged. The “flour of Bács-Kiskun County” was ground
The mill was built by master wood carver János Fábián as in this mill in August 2020.
commissioned by Lajos Csányi. Thanks to the museum Water Mill of Baja: One of the attractions of
director dr. Károly Mezősi, the mill was relocated to the the Danube
courtyard of the Kiskun Museum during 1961 and 1962, The ship mill, built under the leadership of László Márton
saving it from destruction. In 2020 and 2021, the mill from Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), was rocking on
underwent a renovation, during which the interior, the the Baja section of the Danube, and then moved to its

masonry, the shingle roof, the blades, and the turning final location near the mini fishing village museum next

rod were also renewed. to the Türr lookout tower. In the old days, the ship mills
Kiskunhalas: Sáfrik Windmill near Baja spent the winter on the Sugovica (an old tribu-
Antal Hunyadi built the listed mill building, now known tary of the Danube) until 31st March, and then operated
as the Sáfrik Mill, between 1861 and 1867 with a grind- on the Danube until the end of October.

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