Windmill, Enisala, Tulcea Dobrogea (1964)

Gheorghe FocGheorghe · 1964

Windmill, Enisala, Tulcea Dobrogea. Enisala is a village in Sarichioi village the largest commune in Tulcea County, Dobrogea, Romania. Dobrogea is also referred to as “the land of the winds,” it is in the past also the land of the windmills. They appeared as early as 1585, northern Dobrogea being the area with the highest density of windmills, with hundreds of such plants, with which the locals milled their grain. The camera lens captured an aspect of popular architecture from 1964. The investigation conducted during that period was part of a project carried out in several regions of the country. Along with the new constructions we also photographed old architectural monuments like the detail of the milling plant in the picture. This windmill possibly dates from the first half of the twentieth century, being a small installation with four wings, a single pair of stones, with wooden skeleton dressed in reeds. The transmission is made through the vertical axis, from the wheel with the masks to the stones. In the background is seen the roof of a house, with reed covers from the village of Enisala.