WORLD HERITAGE SITE : KINDERDIJK
Well, it is summer, sunny and the temperature even reached 29 degree Celcius! On this hot day yesterday, 19 August, I decided to bike around Kinderdijk, one of the World Heritage Site in the Netherlands, close to Rotterdam.
I quoted from the link above the information :
I quoted from the link above the information :
19 Windmills Combined
The mill network at Kinderdijk dates from the middle of the 18th century and basically comprises two rows of drainage mills working in parallel. Because of their function it would be better to speak of ‘reservoir’ mills: they lift water from a lower-lying ‘boezem’ (reservoir or polder drainage pool) to a higher boezem. Both rows independently drained a polder area further down in the Alblasserwaard. This ‘waard’, or holm, covers roughly 24,000 hectares, divided over the (former) water board districts of the Nederwaard and the Overwaard.
The facing rows each have eight mills of equal capacity dating from 1738 and 1740. There are also three other mills, which effectively are also drainage mills.
The mills are still in operating order, but are put to little use and are no longer essential for drainage. Two steam-driven pumping stations were installed at Kinderdijk in 1868. One of these stations – the Wisboom pumping station - still exists, but its function has been taken over by an electrically driven pump.
The facing rows each have eight mills of equal capacity dating from 1738 and 1740. There are also three other mills, which effectively are also drainage mills.
The mills are still in operating order, but are put to little use and are no longer essential for drainage. Two steam-driven pumping stations were installed at Kinderdijk in 1868. One of these stations – the Wisboom pumping station - still exists, but its function has been taken over by an electrically driven pump.
I shared some pictures here.
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