Tower-windmill as the technics relikt of Opole region

Abstract

Windmills belong to objects, which except historical and technical qualities show the evolution of the material culture of the region, own landscape's values. By decades they were buildings, which create the locality landscape and they distinguish a particular situating, proportions of blocks and construction's solutions. Some apart from numerous buildings, so-called kozlak windmills and seldom found paltrak windmills, some Dutch-type ones also exist. Their role in the cultural landscape of the Opole region is presented. In particular their structure, both technical and technological system, location, state of preservation and way of proposed use, is also shown