Juellingsholm B&B
THE JUEL'S AT THE ISLET
Holm (Islet): A piece of land or spot that rises above, is separated from, stands out from its surroundings; especially about a piece of field or meadow that is surrounded by water, swamps or ditches. (Dictionary of the Danish language).
Gentlemen Mogens Juel and later Jens Juel are linked to the place. Jens Juel was a councilor (i.e. sat on the council of the kingdom and is thus among the kingdom's most influential men) and we know him from the pulpit in Sdr. Omme, who donated to the church.
Hence the name Juellingsholm!
Jens marries Anna Grubbe, who, according to tradition, moved the mill from nearby Møbjerg to Juellingsholm. Juellingsholm Mill was separated from the manor in 1768 and then became an independent mill site.
JUELLINGSHOLM MILL
"Whoever wants to build a mill must own the dam and dam site so situated that the overflow does not cause the water to flow over someone else's fields and meadows, and does not with backwater damage old mills that have stood since Arild's time." (Valdemar Sejrs Jyske Lov 1242).
The mill was moved from Møbjerg around the year 1600 by Anna Grubbe and has thus been an active place for almost 350 years.
In 1943, however, the mill activities were moved to Sdr. Omme town, where it was possible to connect to the railway. The entire area around the current Sdr. Omme Multicenter was thus the property of the mill.
In 1975, all activities were sold to Hedegaard A/S. Today, the only track is the new section Møllestien.
JUELLINGSHOLM POWER PLANT
Alongside the original mill operation, a power plant was established in 1906 at Juellingsholm mill. You thus ground grain during the day and in the evening you could turn the big assault Christmas over to a direct current generator.
In the beginning, it was only about electricity for own consumption, but before long the neighboring farms also had direct current installed.
It didn't take long before the town's residents joined the bandwagon and on 19 April 1911, 18 of the town's citizens could put their signatures as proof that they would purchase electricity from the electricity plant at Juellingsholm Mølle for the next 15 years.
In the years that followed, the surrounding villages followed suitin 1922 electricity became everyone's property. The Craftsmen's Association and the Citizens' Association entered into an agreement with the power plant in December 1922 to supply Sdr. Omme town with electric street lights.
Sdr. Omme had seen the light!
The consumption of electricity was still steadily increasing and in 1932 it was realized that the capacity of the water mill would soon be too small.
A new power plant was therefore built in Sdr. Omme (the building next to Meny), which could be put into use in 1937.Architecturally, the building marks the transition from the Better Building Practice style to functionalism.
Despite the expansions, the plant was again on the way to a deficit capacity and the engines at the power plant were switched off for the last time on 26 October 1961.
JUELLINGSHOLM DAMBRUG
In the 1950s, time had passed from the forms of production within millwork and electricity production that the amount of water at Juellingsholm could contribute with.
It was, of course, not the only place in Denmark where there was now a more or less redundant amount of water in terms of production, so in the 1950s a new phenomenon really emerged, namely pond farming.
Juellingsholm Dambrug was established in 1956 and expanded over time.
The 1980s and 1990s were tough years for pond farmers. Ever-increasing demands for environmental considerations made the traditional fish farm operation difficult, and at the beginning of the 1990s, Juellingsholm was thus required to establish a large basin on the original fish farm site west of the mill. The basin today forms the lake at Juellingsholm Mølle.
The pond farm ended definitively in 2006.
