Windmills. Learn to Dutch.
they made them when there was water
During the Middle Ages, windmills were used primarily for grinding grain and pumping water.
1100 years
pull water from the earth
windmills are used now for mainly wind energy but in the old times the dutch used them to grind corn and wheat for flour
Dutch people and windmills
I am sure some windmills were used to grind flour, however the majority were used a pumps to keep the land drained.
Windmills. Learn to Dutch.
Yes, that is what the windmills are for.
Industrialisation was the main cause. Windmills were primarily used for corn miling, land drainage and saw miling. Since the Dutch experience problems caused by wind and sea, they tried to make good use of their causes. So they built windmills throughout the flatland. Geographically, windmills marked places in the flatlands when there was no such thing as GPS or maps.
The translation is basically the same. Windmills are called windmolens in Dutch
Cheese, clogs, tulips, and windmills.
they made them when there was water
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You can find dutch windmills all over the Netherlands. You can find most of the mills in the western part of the Netherlands. There are still about 1000 windmills in the Netherlands. Most popular: Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam) and Zaanse Schans (near Amsterdam).
Tulips! Windmills! Clogs! Cheese!