THE POSSIBILITY OF INCLUDING THE REMAINING WINDMILLS IN THE TOURIST OFFER OF VOJVODINA

Text topic: Studies

Text author: Живана Крејић и Слободан Черовић

At the end of the eighteenth and in the early nineteenth century, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovak and Serbian builders built more than 280 windmills in Vojvodina. As the most advanced facilities for grinding grain, windmills used the drive energy of the northern and the northwestern winds and facilitated the lives of the people of that time. Two centuries later, based on a field research carried out in Vojvodina in the period from 2012 to 2014, it was determined that eleven windmills still physically exist. Despite the fact that most of them are protected by law, these important monuments of folk architecture are in very poor condition and have lost their function. The aim of this paper is to point to the examples of good practice and the inclusion of windmills in the tourist offer of European countries as well as the possibility for the revitalization of the remaining windmills in Vojvodina as important cultural and historical monuments and an integral part of the history, culture and heritage of our country – as a chance to enrich the tourist offer of Vojvodina.