Tadre Watermill

Tadre Watermill is a watermill on Taderod Baek, a tributary of Elverdams A, in Lejre Municipality, between Roskilde and Tollose, some 30 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now operated as a museum and nature centre under Roskilde Museum. A watermill has been positioned on the web page since the 15th century. The millers on the belongings had been copyholders under Åstrup Manor. The mill had lands attached making it feasible to run a small farm in conjunction with the mill. The current watermill turned into built as a grain mill in circa 1840. The web page additionally blanketed a stamp mill.

The watermill was later converted right into a saw mill. Christian Henrik Hansen, a miller from Funen, leased the watermill in 1914. His 12-year-old daughter Marie assisted him in the work. She endured the operations after her father's loss of life in 1845. She in no way married and operated the watermill alone while a farmhand changed into responsible for managing the related farmland. Marie Hansen have become a standard determine among millers because it was particularly uncommon for a woman to deal with the heavy mill paintings by myself.