Molen `t Hert (the Deer) or Oostermolen (eastern mill as the other mill in yesterday`s pic. is named: Wester mill) Anno 1748 Ellemeet-Holland.
A closer look to yesterday`s windmill pic. but the reason I like to show this pic. is to been seen in front. The farmed grounds are often surrounded by ditches , No barbed wires . The entrance to the farmland you can see in front : a dam. no barriers . You can also use this for to pass a car.
Love those windmills, Pyrrhula, they are symbols of your beautiful country. We have windmills around the island, but the structure is different and except for one or two they do not have the sails anymore.
Pyrrhula @blueberry1222@sailingmusic@sangwann .
Windmills has/need to be used. If not , the fall into disrepair very quick and getting destructive soon. So most of the windmills has a volunteer, certificated, miller that use the windmill and work with/on it on regular times. Often the weekends. They turn the mill to the wind, set sails, if necessary, and do the job the mill is build for. Grinding wheat for example witch you can buy. They love visitors and have a talk. ( In our district) So if you see the sails turning around you can assume the miller is on board
@pyrrhula I will be visiting the Netherlands in April and will certainly keep an eye out for spinning windmills! I am very much looking forward to my visit ... Bought the trip as a bday gift for my husband's 40th....oslo and Amsterdam (as well as a few other Dutch cities).😊😊😊
I'll be spending a week in the Netherlands...Amsterdam, Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Delft, The Hague. My maternal grandparents left Hengelo right before World War II. I thought about going there, but there is really nothing left there for me to visit. I am sure that I have relatives someplace in the Netherlands, but I have no idea who they would be. It's so common that when family immigrates to America that they severe all ties back home and us grandkids have no connection to our European heritage.
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Pyrrhula
@blueberry1222 @sailingmusic @sangwann .
Windmills has/need to be used. If not , the fall into disrepair very quick and getting destructive soon. So most of the windmills has a volunteer, certificated, miller that use the windmill and work with/on it on regular times. Often the weekends. They turn the mill to the wind, set sails, if necessary, and do the job the mill is build for. Grinding wheat for example witch you can buy. They love visitors and have a talk. ( In our district) So if you see the sails turning around you can assume the miller is on board