Stephan Neven
Scene in the Krimpenerwaard (HDR)
Sunrise near the Boezemmolen nr. 6, in Haastrecht. Some cows were approaching me to start their breakfast in some meadows of the Hooge Boezem. The Hooge Boezem is one of the bosoms of the polder, and the mill is regulating the waterlevel of this bosom. Well, it used to regulate it and in the the future it will do it again, but for now it is not able to grind. It is restored so that it can perform this function in the future.
A bosom is a land part that has a fluctuating (ground)water level. From the lowest part of the polder, water is transported upwards to a bosom with help of a windmill. The bosom is always the last stage water is before transported to the main river of the polder (in this case the river on the photo, the Vlist). Sometimes, when the lowest part of the polder is really deep, it needs several bosoms to overwin the height difference. Alongside the Vlist there used to be 7 mills, with 6 bosoms, but all but one are demolished because steam pumping station "S.I. van Nooten" took over this job. That's why this piece of land behind the mill is called Hooge Boezem (High Bosom), it was the last, and thus highest, bosom before the water was transported to the Vlist. This windmill transported the water from the second-last bosom to this one, and further alongstream there used to be the last mill, who transported it from this bosom to the Vlist.
Until 2 years ago, this mill was partly demolished, and is rebuilt since then. Now they are making it able to grind again, but that is just to show people how it works, it can not keep the whole polder dry, because his 6 fellow-windmills are gone.
Scene in the Krimpenerwaard (HDR)
Sunrise near the Boezemmolen nr. 6, in Haastrecht. Some cows were approaching me to start their breakfast in some meadows of the Hooge Boezem. The Hooge Boezem is one of the bosoms of the polder, and the mill is regulating the waterlevel of this bosom. Well, it used to regulate it and in the the future it will do it again, but for now it is not able to grind. It is restored so that it can perform this function in the future.
A bosom is a land part that has a fluctuating (ground)water level. From the lowest part of the polder, water is transported upwards to a bosom with help of a windmill. The bosom is always the last stage water is before transported to the main river of the polder (in this case the river on the photo, the Vlist). Sometimes, when the lowest part of the polder is really deep, it needs several bosoms to overwin the height difference. Alongside the Vlist there used to be 7 mills, with 6 bosoms, but all but one are demolished because steam pumping station "S.I. van Nooten" took over this job. That's why this piece of land behind the mill is called Hooge Boezem (High Bosom), it was the last, and thus highest, bosom before the water was transported to the Vlist. This windmill transported the water from the second-last bosom to this one, and further alongstream there used to be the last mill, who transported it from this bosom to the Vlist.
Until 2 years ago, this mill was partly demolished, and is rebuilt since then. Now they are making it able to grind again, but that is just to show people how it works, it can not keep the whole polder dry, because his 6 fellow-windmills are gone.