Review article

Water-mills in Križevci subcounty in 1851

Mira Kolar orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5700
ELIZABETA WAGNER

Abstract

Water-mills are first plants for agricultural raw material processing. They were built out of need and with no defined plan and sprouted on streams and riverswhere water was in abundance. Depending on the quantity of water, watermills were of various shape and their construction showed the creativity of builders. Although no bigger river flows through Križevci subcounty, the number of water-mills is amazing. These watermills, spread over the last period of feudalism, are called streamers or brookers as they were mainly set on streams or brooks. They represented tradition, continuity and the need to be independent in terms of food, but also the ordinary people’s desire to be protected in them as in oases of peace in a time of growing industrialisation and the advance of commodity and monetary relations.
In this battle, however, wind-mills were losers, but their number and participation of all strata of society in owning them show their great significance.

Keywords

Križevci subcounty; water-mills

Hrčak ID:

52157

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/52157

Publication date:

10.2.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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