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A medieval mill site starts making electricity
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Use the public riverside approach near the Komín hydro plant and view the installation from outside the operating site.
Look closer
Look for the relationship between the river level, weir/channel and low power-station building; the landscape explains the technology before any machinery is visible.
The same stretch of river moves from milling grain to generating electricity.
Drop toward the Svratka and the story jumps from feudal infrastructure to electrical infrastructure without leaving the same site. ČEZ and the Brno municipal encyclopedia both document the small hydroelectric station as a 1923 installation built where a medieval mill had once worked the river. The machinery is not a museum reconstruction: the site continued operating and was modernised, while important elements of the original Kaplan-turbine technology were retained or rebuilt around. This is Komín's continuity in industrial form. Water power did not disappear when the mill did; its job changed. From public space, look at the low industrial building, river and weir as one system rather than treating the power station as an isolated box.
Accessibility at this stop
Riverside public routes exist, but surface quality, gradients and the safest viewing point near operating infrastructure require current human verification.
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