List of windmills
Africa
South Africa
Asia
Indonesia
The Dutch colonists in Batavia built at least four wind-powered sawmills around the Bay of Batavia, many years after founding Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1619, but these were not entirely successful. People and animals (water buffalo) powered mills also and previously (introduced by the Chinese). Out of about 25 Dutch-designed mills in the area, their water-powered mills were the most successful. Specifically, around 1675 a first wind-powered sawmill was built on the island of De Kuyper (now Pulu Burung) to support the Onrust Island (Pulu Kapal) dockyard that repaired Dutch East India Company ships. By 1685 there were two built in Onrust and around 1705 another was built on the island of Edam (Pulu Damar.[1]
All four were destroyed by British bombardment on 9 November 1800.[1] Under Napoleon, the Dutch nation which was named the Batavian Republic from 17xx to 18xx) had become part of the French empire, and Batavia in the East Indies was included. The bombardment was near the end of the War of the Second Coalition that pitted Britain and almost all of Europe against the First French Republic. This must have been part of the East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars. [1]
Israel
Japan
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Kamiyūbetsu | Smock | ||||
Kita | Smock | ||||
Maebashi, Gunma | Michinoeki Green Flower Stock Farm | Smock | |||
Sakura | De Liefde | Tower | 1994 | ||
Shodoshima | Tower | The windmill is presented to Shōdo Island from Milos, Greece. | |||
Tome | Location: 38°41′23.3″N 141°08′11.3″W | Tower |
Syria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Homs | Krak des Chevaliers | Tower | One of the towers had a windmill (far right in picture).[2] | ||
Quneitra | Trestle | Pumping mill (Photo) | |||
Tartus | Smock | Photo dated 2007 |
Taiwan
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dongshih | Tower |
Thailand
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chiangmai | Hollow post |
Oceania
Australia
Europe
Austria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bad Traunstein | Post | ||||
Markgrafneusiedl | Tower | ||||
Podersdorf am See | Tower | ||||
Retz | Tower | ||||
Retz | (second mill) | Tower | |||
Riegersburg | Tower |
Belarus
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Kaliadzičy | 52°38′16″N 24°33′15″E | Post | |||
Minsk | State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life | Post | Moved from Damatkanavichy | ||
Minsk | State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life | Post | Moved from Yanushowka | ||
Minsk | Smock | ||||
Stroczycy | Post |
Belgium
Bulgaria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Nesebar | Post | ||||
Nesebar | Tower | ||||
Nesebar | Tower | ||||
Pravda | Post | ||||
Belintsi | 43.654514°N 26.954275°E | early 20th century | |||
Rila | Post | ||||
Sozopol | Post |
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Åland | Post | ||||
Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Finström, Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Hartola | Post | ||||
Järvenpää | Post | ||||
Konnevesi | Konnevesi Museum | Post | |||
Korpoström, Korpo | Hembygdsmuseum | Post | |||
Kotka | Post | ||||
Liminka | Post | ||||
Loviisa | Smock | ||||
Luopajarvi | Post | ||||
Oulu | Turkansaari Open Air Museum 64°56′51″N 25°42′25″E |
Post | |||
Pälkäne | 61°20′15″N 24°16′17″E | Smock | |||
Pudasjärvi | Post | ||||
Samppalinna, Turku | Tower | 1860 | |||
Sagalund | Post | ||||
Seurasaari | Seurasaari Open Air Museum | Post | |||
Sideby | Post | ||||
Tornio | Post | ||||
Tyrnävä | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Smock | ||||
Vaala | Post | ||||
Östra Simskäla, Vårdö, Åland | Post | ||||
Vuonna | Smock |
France
Germany
Greece
- See List of windmills in Greece
Hungary
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Debrecen | Hortobágy Windmill | Tower | |||
Dusnok | Szentendrei Néprajzi Múzeum | Tower | |||
Jánoshalma | Tower | ||||
Kengyel | Tower | ||||
Kiskunfélegyháza | Tower | ||||
Kiskunhalas | Tower | ||||
Ópusztaszer | Tower | Late 19th century | |||
Sopron | Tower | ||||
Sopron | Tower | ||||
Szegvár | Tower | ||||
Szeged | Kiskundorozsma Windmill | Tower | |||
Tataháza | Tower | ||||
Tés | Tower |
Ireland
Italy
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bibbona | Tower | ||||
Laguna di Orbetello | Molino Spagnolo | Tower | |||
Margherita di Savoia | Titt wind engine | ||||
Marsala | (two mills) | Tower | Pumping mills for salt works | ||
Mozia | Tower | Former pumping mill for salt works, now a salt museum[3] | |||
Trapani | Tower | ||||
Valle Benedetta | 48°31′24″N 10°25′00″E | Tower |
Latvia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Asare | Tower | ||||
Cēsis | Āraišu Windmill | Tower | |||
Cēsis | Cēsis Windmill | Tower | |||
Elkšņi | Tower | ||||
Ķīru | 56°31′55″N 24°32′11″E | Smock | |||
Nīca | 56°22′45″N 20°29′12″E | Smock | |||
Otaņķi | Rudes Windmill 56°23′18″N 21°05′46″E |
Tower | |||
Piltene | 57°13′46″N 21°40′00″E | Smock | Base remains. | ||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | |||
Ruba | Tower | ||||
Sēļi | Smock | ||||
Valdgale | 57°17′11″N 22°34′16″E | Tower |
Lithuania
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Aleknaičiai | Tower | ||||
Alksniupiai | 55°46′16″N 23°46′36″E | Smock | |||
Baltoji | Tower | ||||
Darbėnai | Smock | ||||
Diržiai | 56°13′14″N 24°00′20″E | Smock | |||
Katinai | 55°35′01″N 24°24′22″E | Tower | |||
Kleboniškiai | 55°46′12″N 23°50′58″E | Smock | |||
Lazdininkai | 56°00′24″N 21°13′00″E | Smock | |||
Meldinai | 55°51′17″N 23°52′55″E | Smock | |||
Obeliai | Tower | ||||
Paežeriai | 55°48′49″N 23°41′39″E | Smock | |||
Paluobiai | 54°52′30″N 23°14′28″E | Smock | |||
Purpliai | Smock | ||||
Rumšiškės | Rumšiškės Open Air Museum | Smock Tower | Moved from Samogitia | ||
Šeduva | Tower | ||||
Šiauliai | 55°55′24″N 23°19′19″E | Smock | 1875-1880 | ||
Šeduva | Devil's Mill | Tower | |||
Sodeliškiai | 55°37′51″N 24°26′04″E | Tower | |||
Sovaičiai | Smock | ||||
Stačiūnai | Smock | ||||
Stultiškiai | Smock | ||||
Telšiai | Smock | ||||
Traupis | 55°30′45″N 24°44′14″E | Tower | |||
Vaiguviskiai | Smock | ||||
Vaškai | Tower | 1898 |
Malta
Netherlands
Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bucharest | Village Museum | Post | |||
Bucharest | Museum of the Romanian Peasant | Post | |||
Letea | Post | ||||
Sibiu | Muzeul Tehnicii Popular de la Sibiu | Post | |||
Unknown location | Post |
Russia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Barinovka | Smock | ||||
Cheboksarsky District | Smock | ||||
Istra | New Jerusalem Monastery Mill | Smock | |||
Kizhi | Post | ||||
Kizhi | Post | ||||
Kozmodemyansk | Mari Ethnographic Museum | Post | |||
Kupino | 'Kupino Traditional Culture Centre | Post | |||
Kursk Oblast | Post and Smock | Four mills | |||
Ludorvay | Ludorvay Architectural and Ethnographic Open-air Museum 56°45′42″N 53°03′14″E |
Smock | |||
Malye Korely | Post | ||||
Malye Korely | Post | ||||
Malye Korely | Smock | ||||
Myshkin | Smock | ||||
Perm Krai | Khokhlovka Architectural and Ethnological Museum | Smock | |||
Cheboksarsky District | Smock | Two mills | |||
Suzdal | Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life | Smock | |||
Suzdal | Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life (2nd mill) |
Smock | Rear in photo | ||
Tarkhany | Smock | ||||
Tobolsk | (four mills) | Post | |||
Tserkovshchina | Post | Standing in 1919 | |||
Velikiy Novgorod | Smock | ||||
Volgograd | Post | ||||
Volgograd | Smock | Four mills standing in 1917 | |||
Vitoslavicy | 58°31′21″N 31°16′13″E | Smock | |||
Yakovlevsky District, Belgorod Oblast |
Post |
Slovakia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Korňa | Photo | ||||
Holíč | Tower | 1880s |
Spain
Sweden
- See List of windmills in Sweden
Turkey
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayvalık | Tower | House converted | |||
Bodrum | Tower | Several mills | |||
Datça | (four mills) | Tower |
Ukraine
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pyrohiv | Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography (three mills) |
Smock | |||
Pyrohiv | Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography (five mills) |
Post | |||
Prelesne | Post |
United Kingdom
Channel Islands
Isle of Man
North America
Antigua
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Betty's Hope | Betty's Hope Mills (two mills) |
Tower |
Barbados
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St Andrew | Morgan Lewis Mill | Tower | Website | ||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Lucy | Tower | ||||
St Peter | Tower | ||||
St Peter | Tower | ||||
St Philip | Tower |
Canada
Guadeloupe
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante | Moulin Bezard | Tower | |||
Le Moule | Moulin du Distrillerier Damoiseau | Tower | |||
Marie-Galante | Tower |
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint John Figtree Parish, Nevis | Montpelier Plantation Mill | Tower mill |
United States
In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.
South America
Brazil
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Arapoti | Smock | ||||
Carambei | Smock | ||||
Holambra | Moinho Povos Unidos | Smock | |||
Paraná | Moinho Castrolando | Smock | |||
Uberlândia | Smock |
Uruguay
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Colonia del Sacramento | El Torreón 34°28′13″S 57°51′11″W |
Tower | Converted to restaurant. Windmill World |
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Minas | Molino Viejo 34°22′39″S 55°14′38″W |
Tower | Windmill World | ||
Montevideo | Mirador Rosario 34°51′12″S 56°08′24″W |
Tower | Destroyed in a storm in 1977. Windmill World |
||
Solymar | Museo del Pan 34°22′50″S 55°57′14″W |
Smock | Windmill World | ||
Unión, Montevideo | Del Galgo 34°52′24″S 56°07′59″W |
Tower | 1900 | Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011. Windmill World |
References
- Peter Boomgaard (2008). "Technologies of a trading empire: Dutch introduction of water‐ and windmills in early‐modern Asia, 1650s–1800". History and Technology. 24 (1): 41–59. doi:10.1080/07341510701616915. S2CID 83903098.
- Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills (PDF). London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231.
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