We went on a trip to the windmill on the hill where in the year of 1864 happend a war. The windmill has been rebuilt many times over the course of 190 years. The mill is located on the very edge of Sønderborg. There were battlefields behind its back where now there stands a museum that showes the flow of the passed war.
In 1848 the First Schleswig War broke out, also known as the Three-Year War. The war came to the Dybbøl Mill several times. In 1848 the Danish army established an observation post at the mill. Danish victories at Nybøl on 28th of May and at Dybbøl 5th of June in 1848 raised enthusiasm within the population. In August 1848 the Danish army and Schleswig-Holstein troops entered into a ceasefire and the war broke out again a year later. On 13th of April 1849, the Danish and German soldiers met in a battle near Dybbøl with the Germans bombarding the Dybbøl Banke. The Dybbøl Mill was hit and burned down. Rebuilt again in 1853, 1864 and in 1935.
