Molens: een eerste kennismaking met een boeiend fenomeen

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English title	Mills: a first introduction to a fascinating phenomenon
Authors & editors	Woudt, Klaas [Author]
Publisher	Uitgeverij Bekking
Year of publication	1981
Languages	Dutch (main text) English (main text) French (main text) German (main text)
Medium	Book
Edition	1
Topics	Wind & watermills > Other Europe (not GB) > Benelux
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Scope & content	An introductory chapter, ‘Nearly a thousand…’, describes the number and variety of mills all over the Netherlands, with illustrations. The different types are covered in subsequent chapters:Horse-driven millsWater-wheel mills‘Standard’ (wind-)millsBeam windmillsTjaskers (Frisian-type screw-driven mills)Spinnekoppen (‘Spider-mills’) Polder millsPaltrok (pawl-driven mills)Tower-millsBeltmolens (elevated mills)More about polder millsStellingmolens (base-mounted mills)These copiously illustrated chapters are followed by a chapter with diagrams, ‘Build your own garden mill’.The next chapter, ‘Looking at mills’, is a field guide to the surviving mills of the Netherlands, their locations and histories.A next chapter is called ‘Something about mill names’ and explains the origins of the names of some Dutch mills. This is followed by the English, French and German summaries.