The history of the current mill begins with 27-year-old Mads Christian Sørensen, son of farmer Søren Henriksen in Jebjerg, who was
the builder. In addition to the mill, a building was built with a miller’s house at one end and a stable and barn at the other. Roslev Mill can be admired on Sallingsundvej 63A in the center of old Roslev. It is a Dutch type windmill with an earthwork
with an onion-shaped hat. It was built in 1883. The mill stopped grinding flour in 1949.
It was not originally the only windmill in Roslev, as it was called Roslev Vestre Mølle. A fire inventory on November 7, 1882 shows that a mill called Roslev Østre Mølle had just been built, standing at Sallingsundvej 3. The builder was Jens Madsen. It is the
the only mill in Roslev that appears on maps from the 1800s. It probably burned down around 1908, when Jens Madsen insured a newly built farm against fire that year, but no mill is mentioned.
There was also a small farm mill on a plot of land called Stjernholm Mølletofte on old maps and named Roslev Mølle on the Videnskabernes Selskabs Kort from 1791. The mill was used as a fixed point when the records for the map were made.
At an assessment of the current mill in Roslev on April 19, 1883, the mill was described as follows;
Roslev Vestre Mølle was built as a three-story octagonal Dutch windmill, standing on a base of whitewashed
plastered foundation wall with a height of 1 cubit (0.63 meters), while the mill from the hat to the base reaches a
height of 11 cubits. The wooden parts were manufactured in Skive and transported to Roslev by horse-drawn cart to be assembled at the construction site. The upper mill or “hull”, as the fire insurance valuation states, was covered with pine shavings, while the onion-shaped hat’s “hull” was covered with oak shavings. The mill was then, as now, manually cranked with a tail, and the wheels and chain still exist. The wings, which were
made of oak, had a wingspan of 27 cubits (almost 17 meters) and were wings for cloth sails.
The inventory consisted of the most necessary parts for the mill to satisfy the customers’ needs: two grinders for grinding grain, one 7 quarters (1 quarter = 15.69 centimeters) and 4 inches (1 inch = 2.6 centimeters), the other 7 quarters and 2 inches, a shell mill (pellet or pit mill) of 10 quarters, a sieve and a blower. The miller was also taken care of, as a hoist was installed so he didn’t have to run up and down the stairs with the heavy sacks. The valuation was 10,000 rigsdaler for the mill building with all fixtures and fittings. At some point before 1915, half of the wingspan was replaced with flaps (jalousies), and there
a 1 cubit shorter wingspan (26 cubits = 16.50 meters) is mentioned in Danske Møller from 1934, but otherwise there was no modernization of Roslev Mølle except that a rolling mill was installed. The shell stone for the grist mill was later removed.
source: Anna Marie Lebech-Sørensen, Windmills and Watermills in Denmark, Volume 3. Skib forlag 2006.
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