The Great Mill

The Great Mill. It is a memorial in the Old Town left from the Teutonic Order. It was the largest Teutonic investment in Gdańsk and combined three functions: a mill, store and bakery. It was built in 1350 on an artificial island created by the bifurcation of the Radunia channel. It had as many as 18 water wheels with a diameter of 5m on 9 of the walls of the mill, and was a great technical achievement. The law said that every sixteenth sack of grain was to be donated to the city. The property was prepared in the event of a siege or the water flow being cut off, when it used horses to power the millstones. In 1454, the mill was donated to the city by Kazimierz Jagiellonian. It operated for a few hundred years, and in1836 was modernised in a US-style and remained in use until the end of World War II. Currently, it is the Wielki Młyn shopping centre.