The Netherlands, Alblasserdam, Kinderdijk, Windmills, Unesco World Heritage Site. Sunrise.
The 19 windmills of Kinderdijk are an internationally known Dutch symbol. The 17 basin-mills were built between 1738 and 1740. Two polder-mills remain from even before then. The windmills operated in a polder-drainage system of the two ancient Water Boards of the Alblasserwaard. Later on modern pumping stations took over the role of the windmills. The diesel-powered JU Smit and the electrical ir. GJ Kok pumping stations still operate in the drainage system. In Kinderdijk, almost a thousand years of the 'struggle against the water' are visible in the polder landscape, with its waterways, dykes, pumping stations, sluices and windmills. The Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout has been a World Heritage site since 1997.
Size: 3534px × 5405px
Location: mill network at Kinderdijk-Elshout, Alblasserwaard polder
Photo credit: © frans lemmens / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -, -fashioned, beginnings, canal, conservation, culture, cultures, dawn, destination, dutch, environmental, europe, holland, kinderdijk, lit, morning, netherlands, outdoors, people, power, scene, silhouette, south, sunrise, tourism, traditional, tranquil, travel, vertical, wind, windmill
