How many windmills are there in Holland???
Well to be precise 1035 windmills and 106 watermills. The south of Holland is the biggest mill province, with 220 windmills. Utrecht has the least only 32 of them. Most of the water mills are in Limburg. If we go back in time a bit, let’s say about 95 years b.b. (before barchetta) there were approximately 10.000 windmills operational. They were milling all kinds of things like corn, they sawed wood, beat oil out of seeds and made paper. The so called polder mills kept the water level in the lowlands acceptable. Many 1000’s of mills did not survive the modern times. The now for Dutch standard very low number of mills is only just about enough to still call Holland windmill country. In the first place there are windmills, simply driven by the wind and then we have water mills powered by streams and rivers. There are 2 categories: the mills that basically mill corn in to flour and another group the polder mills. Well we have seen a few polder mills yesterday, today we’ll see an original c
