Dutch Watermills

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

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

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

Part of its gearbox:

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The Oostendorper watermolen near Haaksbergen:

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

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:

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A large one on an estate called Singraven near Denekamp:

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