Oh this is so great dear senna3: on summer evenings - when I lived not far away from this mill - I used to make a trip alongside the river Vecht until Loenen...
The evening sun shone upon my face and that of my youngest son: those were such nice trips!!!
It is a very nice road along the Vecht Anna. We often include it into our bike trips.
I posted this photo because we in June that they are restoring this mill. On our last trip along the Vecht (in Oct.) the restoration was finished. So I now have 3 pictures of the three phases.
Lasmini, there are advantages and disadvantages. The maintenance of such a mill is very costly, and inspite of the help you get from the government, the people living in such a mill have to make additional money by allowing tourists to see the interior.
William, although you cannot see it, it happened that this mill was in such a bad condition that a complete restoration was needed. This year it is Nationaal Molen Jaar (National Mill Year) in the Netherlands and the government provided money for restoration of several mills, among which this one. The next two pictures show the result!
Yes Pauli, most mills in the Netherlands do work. About once a month they are put to work to keep them operational. But only a few are doing the work they were intended for. For instance, the work of the drainage mills is taken over by pumping stations. I know one mill close to where we live, that is still dayly doing its original work. It is the flour mill shown at http://www.fotothing.com/senna3/photo/645130265eb45c87c19c18b2beac3837/start=1086
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