What is it about?
In this article a virtual reconstruction is carried out -through geometric modelling- of an olive oil mill of which many original elements are still preserved, while others have disappeared. The case study was the Santo Ángel hacienda (Gines, in the province of Seville, Spain), in a mixed urban and rural environment. A virtual reconstruction of the mill machinery has been carried out. The survey and reconstruction of the machinery is an exercise in agricultural industrial archaeology. The study is part of the recovery of the industrial agricultural heritage in Andalusia (Spain).
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Why is it important?
The importance of this work is because the mill that is the subject of the study is located on a hacienda that has an undoubted architectural and heritage value. It perfectly combines the tradition of the agricultural estates of southern Spain in the 19th century with the process of industrialization that was introduced on these farms because of the industrial revolution that took place in Europe. The results obtained represent a tool for the dissemination of industrial heritage at the service of the agri-food sector. It illustrates a classic model of the transformation of the Sevillian hacienda from traditional to industrial production. Through the facilities provided by the used, the design can be included directly in Google Street View, making it much more easily accessible to everyone. The Santo Ángel hacienda, located in the center of the town of Gines, in the heart of the Aljarafe region of Seville (Fig. 1), is an example of how the building typologies of urban olive oil.
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Mills, whose main purpose was to produce olive oil, evolved, from the crude beam presses with counterweight towers to modern hydraulic presses. The beam press is a very characteristic type of olive oil press. It is one of the most widely used olive oil presses from the 17th to the 19th century. Together with the cylindrical or conical stone mill, it was the basis of most of the olive oil mills in use in the 17th and 19th centuries. The use of this press declined with the appearance of hydraulic pressure systems at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dr Manuel Morato-Moreno
Universidad de Sevilla
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This page is a summary of: Virtual Recovery of Agricultural-Industrial Heritage. A Case Study: The Olive Oil Mill of Gines (Andalusia), January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51623-8_44.
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