Windmills at Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam, NL)
Kinderdijk near Rotterdam and Dordrecht in South Holland has the largest collection of historical working windmills in the Netherlands. The 19 windmills (windmolen) at Kinderdijk are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list and a very popular day-trip destination from Rotterdam and even Amsterdam.
Kinderdijk is the best place in Holland to see working windmills. The 19 windmills of Kinderdijk form an idealistic panorama of historic rural Holland as it was a century or two ago. In contrast to most other open air museums with windmills in the Netherlands, the windmills at Kinderdijk have always been here and were not brought to Kinderdijk as museum exhibits.
The windmills at Kinderdijk date from the eighteenth century. These windmills were watermills – wind-powered mills used to pump water from low-lying land back into the Lek River. Steam-powered pumps took over in the late nineteenth century (and eventually electricity) but the windmills were still operational in emergencies up to the mid-twentieth century.
(EuropeanTraveller.com)
Windmills at Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam, NL)
Kinderdijk near Rotterdam and Dordrecht in South Holland has the largest collection of historical working windmills in the Netherlands. The 19 windmills (windmolen) at Kinderdijk are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list and a very popular day-trip destination from Rotterdam and even Amsterdam.
Kinderdijk is the best place in Holland to see working windmills. The 19 windmills of Kinderdijk form an idealistic panorama of historic rural Holland as it was a century or two ago. In contrast to most other open air museums with windmills in the Netherlands, the windmills at Kinderdijk have always been here and were not brought to Kinderdijk as museum exhibits.
The windmills at Kinderdijk date from the eighteenth century. These windmills were watermills – wind-powered mills used to pump water from low-lying land back into the Lek River. Steam-powered pumps took over in the late nineteenth century (and eventually electricity) but the windmills were still operational in emergencies up to the mid-twentieth century.
(EuropeanTraveller.com)