Kinderdijk

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The Kinderdijk milling complex consists of eight stone brick windmills of the waterboard Nederwaard which were built in 1738 eight thatched windmills of the waterboard Overwaard built in 1740 two stone windmills of the polder Nieuw-Lekkerland built in 1760 and one windmill of the polder Blokweer which was built in 1521 and burned down in 1997 Since that day the windmill has been restaured and has been operational since the spring of 2000 Kinderdijk is the final station of the water of the Alblasserwaard, an area that is approximately ten by twenty miles wide before the river Lek takes it to the sea

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Size: 4000px × 6016px
Location: Europe The Netherlands Kinderdijk
Photo credit: © Antonio Magri / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: alblasserwaard, brick, complex, heritage, lek, lekkerland, list, milling, nederwaard, nieuw, overwaard, polder, restaured, river, sea, stone, thatched, unesco, waterboard, windmills, world