World Heritage: Southern Öland Landscape I
The "Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland" is a Unesco World Heritage. The area is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived there for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the physical constraints of the island. As a consequence, the landscape is unique, with abundant evidence of continuous human settlement from prehistoric times to the present day. The flat landscape made the area very suitable for wind mills. The post mill is the most common type of mill on the island Öland. The entire mill is turned on the post to face the wind.
Unesco World Heritage, dossier 968.
World Heritage: Southern Öland Landscape I
The "Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland" is a Unesco World Heritage. The area is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived there for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the physical constraints of the island. As a consequence, the landscape is unique, with abundant evidence of continuous human settlement from prehistoric times to the present day. The flat landscape made the area very suitable for wind mills. The post mill is the most common type of mill on the island Öland. The entire mill is turned on the post to face the wind.
Unesco World Heritage, dossier 968.