Paltrock windmill Schkortitz

The Paltrock Mill celebrated its reopening on German Mill Day 2013 after being dismantled, renovated, and rebuilt in Wurzen-Roitzsch between 2009 and 2013. The entire mill casing framework and the ring rail were preserved and reused. The exterior cladding, floors, and roof cap are new. The interior has been restored to its older state, as it was when the mill was first mentioned in documents around 1836. All modernizations, such as electric drives, transmissions, elevators, mixers, and roller mills, have been removed and some have been set up as decommissioned equipment. Instead, a wind drive with louvered blades, a blade shaft, a pinion wheel, and a grinding mill with millstones were installed. This means that flour and grist can now once again be milled using wind power.