Next time january 18th 2026
Mill day
Experience the watermill when our volunteer mill guild starts the big mill wheels. Hear about the importance of water and the history of the watermill inside the watermill.
Program:
11:00 am: A short introduction to the history of the mill and the water, after which the mill is started up and runs for half an hour.
1:30 pm: Introduction and mill run.
The water in the landscape around Esrum Kloster & Møllegård has had a great importance for the area throughout history.
On the mill days you can experience the spinning mill wheel and hear about the water mill.
Dates in 2026:
Sunday, January 18, 11:00 - 14:00
Sunday, February 8, 11:00 - 14:00
Tuesday, February 10, 11:00 - 14:00
Friday, February 13, 11:00 - 14:00
Sunday, February 15, 11:00 - 14:00
Sunday, March 15, 11:00 - 14:00
Experience the living water mill
On mill days, the volunteer mill guild starts the watermill. You can talk to the volunteers of the mill guild about their work and maintenance of the historic watermill.
Program:
11:00: A short introduction to the history of the mill and the water, after which the mill is started up and runs for half an hour.
13:30: Introduction and mill run.
Access to the water mill is included in the ticket to Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
Meet the mill guild
In the spring of 2023, the mill wheel and the entire machinery that drives the mill grinder were restored. This means that after a break of many years, the mill is now working again. A volunteer mill guild is responsible for maintaining the historic water mill, and on mill days, the mill guild starts up the water mill and explains how it works.
The history of water
In the area around Esrum Monastery, the water meanders in various streams. Esrum Lake, the most water-rich lake in Denmark, is located just two kilometers south of the monastery. From here runs Esrum Å, which carries large amounts of water into the landscape around Esrum Kloster & Møllegård, where there are streams, small ponds, ponds and wet meadows. Access to the large water resources was one of the reasons why the monks and later also the kings chose to settle in Esrum and used water mills.
