Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
Also known as Windmills at Kinderdijk
1738
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landscape
The Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout is a polder water-management landscape on the boundary of the Alblasserwaard between Kinderdijk and Elshout, where nineteen historic windmills are arranged across two reservoirs and a network of…
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- 1740
The Overwaard group of wooden windmills was built across the second reservoir, doubling the mill capacity of the polder network.
- 1868
The Wisboom Pumping Station was added as an early powered supplement to the windmill drainage system.
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