Piroska-féle szélmalom - Székkutas

It was good!

Old mill near neglected road.

Wonderful Heritage, Woodwork Outside is a dangerous accident! But professionals will fix it in time!

It would be nicer to see it in its original state!

Sorry --1 can't be given otherwise I'd give it. It is a spectacle and a mill insult to the design that windmills are recommended for sightseeing. I do not recommend anyone to waste on this for up to 1 minute

Neglected place, the XIX. Direct access to the windmill built at the end of the 19th century is only possible through very high gas.

The mill was probably built by farmer Sándor Szabó in 1885 and was owned by him until 1950. The windmill is made of red brick, its exterior is unplastered, and in terms of structure it is a Dutch-type mill with three stone passages (three-stone). Its special feature is that thanks to the design of the roof structure, the sail could be turned in the direction of the wind. In a major storm in 1945, the entire sail structure was destroyed and the roof structure damaged. After 1945, it continued to be converted into an engine mill until 1950, after which it was abandoned for decades. The windmill was named after the former German writer Hugo Hartung. Around 1920, Hugo Hartung spent a summer in Hódmezővásárhely-Kutaspuszta as an exchange student. The novel Ich denke oft an Piroschka (I often think of Piroschka) in 1954 was born from his experiences here. In his novel, Hugo Hartung fondly remembers Hungary, the beautiful steppe landscapes, the Hungarian people and, of course, his own youth. The book was a huge success in Germany, but the real fame came from a romantic film starring Lieselotte Pulver. The film brings to life the romantic love of the steppe and all the traditional associations characteristic of the Hungarians: the steppe, the boom well, the csárdás, the goulash. The film is screened on German channels today, thanks to which German, French and Dutch travelers on the main road 47 still stop at the windmill. Following the film, a French man visited the locations in it and then bought the windmill in the late 1980s. After the man's death, in 2000, Gábor Csende from Vásárhely bought the building. Today, the mill preserves objects and tools related to contemporary peasant life, which are the collections of Gábor Csende. According to him, in the building that now stands without a sail and has long been deprived of its grindstones and internal structure, grain was last ground in 1924. It was then that the steam mill, which no longer exists, was built. Gábor Csende knows that the mill was built according to the type design of Kálmán Leibert.