Žarėnai Windmill

The mill was built around 1907 in the village of Giržališkės by the owner of the Paliesiai Manor, Stanislovas Liutikas. In 1936, S. Liutikas transferred the mill to his cousin for debts, who moved the mill to the village of Žarėnai. The mill operated under wind power until 1960.

The mill is wooden, in the shape of an octagonal truncated pyramid with an octagonal cap, three stories with a half-height, skeleton. Covered with chips or boards. The equipment that has survived inside the mill: a frame with a lower gear; a millstone spindle with a stand on the first floor; millstone lifting scissors, stored on the first floor; three millstones on the second floor; a bag lifting mechanism on the third floor.

EXCLUSIVENESS
It is said that the mill was and still is one of the largest windmills in Lithuania.

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Updated: 2026-11-14