Windmills

The windmills at Kinderdijk are a set of 19 enormous windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder, inside the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Most of the turbines are part of the village of Kinderdijk in the municipality of Molenwaard, and one mill, De Blokker, is a part of the municipality of Alblasserdam. Built in 1738 and 1740, to maintain water out of the polder, it's far the most important awareness of vintage windmills in the Netherlands and one of the nice-regarded Dutch vacationer web sites.

The mills are listed as country wide monuments and the complete place is a protected village view due to the fact that 1993. They had been a UNESCO World Heritage Site considering 1997. Kinderdijk lies in the Alblasserwaard, at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. In Alblasserwaard, troubles with water became more and more apparent in the thirteenth century. Large canals, referred to as "weteringen", have been dug to remove the extra water inside the polders. However, the tired soil started putting, while the level of the river rose because of the river's sand deposits. Most of the modern-day mills have been built in 1738 and 1740.