Dutch Watermills

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Knowing full well my photos cannot begin to compete with such trending gems as this one, I decided on reposting some older photos today.


Some of the water mills in my region of The Netherlands, as photographed by me.


The Haarmühle near Alstätte (just across the border in Germany, actually, but that is easily fixed by moving some border posts):

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Part of its gearbox:

haarmuehle4.jpg


The Oostendorper watermolen near Haaksbergen:

OostendorperWatermolen_bw.jpg

The same one in colour for the B&W-blind:

OostendorperWatermolen.jpg

The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael made several paintings of this Oostendorper watermolen. Here are two of them, showing what the mill looked like in the seventeenth century:

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A small watermill on an estate called Twickel near Delden:

TwickelWatermolen.jpg


A large one on an estate called Singraven near Denekamp:

WatermolenSingraven.jpg


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