Welcome to the Museum of a water mill of the XVIII century in Zhodishki agro-town.
Zhodishki (Smorgon district, Grodno region) is located in a picturesque place on the banks of Viliya river. Zhodishki are known since the beginning of the XVI century. In 1774, the King of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, endowed Zhodishki with the Magdeburg Law.
The water mill was built in Zhodishki in 1781, and in 1997, the director of LLC “FRA-MIL” Franz Boleslavovich Zhilko restored it and for the moment the water mill is working till now – it is grinding flour with millstones with the help of water. Until the end of the XIX century, grain for flour were grinded using a wooden wheel with a diameter of 4 meters (it was restored), and at the end of the XIX century a turbine was installed (in 1996 was restored). Currently, the mill in the agro-town Zhodishki is the only operating old watermill on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. There are an ethnographic museum and a museum of grain and bread in the mill.
At the mill you will be shown and told about the most important of our exhibits – an operating water mill and an exposition of grain and bread.
Welcome to the Museum of a water mill of the XVIII century in Zhodishki agro-town.
Zhodishki (Smorgon district, Grodno region) is located in a picturesque place on the banks of Viliya river. Zhodishki are known since the beginning of the XVI century. In 1774, the King of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, endowed Zhodishki with the Magdeburg Law.
The water mill was built in Zhodishki in 1781, and in 1997, the director of LLC “FRA-MIL” Franz Boleslavovich Zhilko restored it and for the moment the water mill is working till now – it is grinding flour with millstones with the help of water. Until the end of the XIX century, grain for flour were grinded using a wooden wheel with a diameter of 4 meters (it was restored), and at the end of the XIX century a turbine was installed (in 1996 was restored). Currently, the mill in the agro-town Zhodishki is the only operating old watermill on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. There are an ethnographic museum and a museum of grain and bread in the mill.
At the mill you will be shown and told about the most important of our exhibits – an operating water mill and an exposition of grain and bread.
The water mill was built in 1781
A water mill in the at.Zhodishki is the only operating old watermill on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.