Mollösund - A gift from Vikarvet

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Typical Mollösund – Cows on the bathing rocks Mollön is well known for its fine bathing rocks, but also for its cows. Every year, cows are shipped out from the mainland to graze. All summer long the ecologically reared and widely renowned “Mollö cows” are free to roam the island, before they are collected again in the autumn.

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A gift from Vikarvet

Mollösund has had several windmills. The land holding distribution map of 1773 shows drawings of two smock windmills in Mollösund. The windmill we see today was a gift from Vikarvet in Lysekil to Mollösund. In connection with the donation the Föreningen Mollösund (Mollösund Association) was set up, which is now celebrating its 60th anniversary.

In the middle of the 1850s the windmill was owned by Thorbernt Johannesson. In the 1849 taxation records it can be seen that the original mill was circular, while it is now polygonal. During 1850-1857 the mill was assessed for taxation at a value of 200 riksdaler, and in 1863-1873 this had risen to 700 riksdaler. A summary of the business could look like this:

Taxed income Deductions Taxable income.

1862      House 31 Hans Olsson incl. mill 700 rdr      300 rdr      400 rdr
1863-64      ”                - ” -    - ” -        600 rdr       300 rdr      300 rdr
1865-68      ”                - ” -    - ” -        500 rdr       300 rdr      200 rdr
1869-72      ”                - ” -    - ” -        400 rdr       300 rdr      100 rdr

The last miller

Olof Johansson, who moved from Tanum in 1867, became the last miller in Mollösund. He was also registered as the mill owner and in 1901 he shifted the mill a few hundred metres from Tullhuseberget to the location where it is now. The reason was said to be that he wanted it nearer his house. Olof used the mill for grinding wheat and also fishbones. Olof Johansson was recognised as a good miller, a skilled carpenter and blacksmith, and a reliable churchwarden.

A couple of years after Olof died in 1931 his daughter Olga sold the mill to the Fornminnessällskapet Vikarvet (Vikarvet Antiquarian Society) in Lysekil. The Board minutes from that time show that the purchase price was SEK 250 and that if the sale had not been concluded the mill would have been demolished. Olga Johansson agreed to look after the mill and did so until the mid-1940s when it was handed over to the Föreningen Mollösund (Mollösund Association).

There may also have been a windmill on Klockeberget, as there are traces of a mill there even now.