Molens: een eerste kennismaking met een boeiend fenomeen
Full details
| English title | Mills: a first introduction to a fascinating phenomenon |
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Uitgeverij Bekking |
| Year of publication | 1981 |
| Languages | Dutch (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
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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. |
Copies held
Accession no. 343
- Shelf location: C112-WOU
- Donor: Peter Dolman Collectiion
- Advance notice required to view in person
Accession no. 230417
- Shelf location: C112-WOU
- Donor: James Woodward-Nutt
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