page_title: Lille Mølle, Christianshavn
section_title: The first windmill
hierarchical_section_title: Lille Mølle, Christianshavn / History / The first windmill
caption_attribution_description: English: Lille Mølle, Prinsessegade and Vor Frelsers Kirke seen from Christianshavns Vold in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Lille Mølle is a historic house museum in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the last windmill on the old ramparts of Christianshavn. It is a Dutch smock mill erected in 1783 on one of the bastions, replacing a post mill built in 1669. It was turned into a private home in 1916.
  Until 2016, the Little Mill was open to visitors on limited opening hours. Everything was left exactly as it stood when the house was still lived in. The home was at the same time highly eclectic and typical of its period. The National Museum closed this historic house museum in 2016.
context_section_description: The first windmill on the site was a post mill built in 1669. It was one of numerous windmills which were constructed on Copenhagen's Bastioned Fortifications. The only other of these to survive today is the windmill at the Kastellet fortress. In the event of siege, a fortified city needed secure supplies, including supplies of flour and rolled groats. In the same time, a location on the bastions provided favourable wind conditions.
caption: Little Mill in 1754
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