List of windmills

Leonardusmolen, in Limburg area, Netherlands

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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]

Engraving of Onrust (c.1765)

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
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 / 38.689806°N 141.136472°W / 38.689806; -141.136472 Tower

Syria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
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

New Zealand

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Auckland Partington's Mill Tower
Foxton De Molen Smock 2003 De Molen
Nelson Founders Heritage Park Smock

Europe

Austria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
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
Kaliadzičy 52°38′16″N 24°33′15″E / 52.63778°N 24.55417°E / 52.63778; 24.55417 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
Nesebar Post
Nesebar Tower
Nesebar Tower
Pravda Post
Belintsi 43°39′16″N 26°57′15″E / 43.654514°N 26.954275°E / 43.654514; 26.954275 early 20th century
Rila Post
Sozopol Post

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
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 / 64.94750°N 25.70694°E / 64.94750; 25.70694 		Post
Pälkäne 61°20′15″N 24°16′17″E / 61.33750°N 24.27139°E / 61.33750; 24.27139 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

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
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
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 43°31′24″N 10°25′00″E / 43.52333°N 10.41667°E / 43.52333; 10.41667 Tower

Latvia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Asare Tower
Cēsis Āraišu Windmill Tower
Cēsis Cēsis Windmill

57°18′56″N 25°16′54″E / 57.31556°N 25.28167°E / 57.31556; 25.28167

Tower
Elkšņi Tower
Ķīru 56°31′55″N 24°32′11″E / 56.53194°N 24.53639°E / 56.53194; 24.53639 Smock
Nīca 56°22′45″N 20°29′12″E / 56.37917°N 20.48667°E / 56.37917; 20.48667 Smock
Otaņķi Rudes Windmill
56°23′18″N 21°05′46″E / 56.38833°N 21.09611°E / 56.38833; 21.09611 		Tower
Piltene 57°13′46″N 21°40′00″E / 57.22944°N 21.66667°E / 57.22944; 21.66667 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 / 57.28639°N 22.57111°E / 57.28639; 22.57111 Tower

Lithuania

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Aleknaičiai Tower
Alksniupiai 55°46′16″N 23°46′36″E / 55.77111°N 23.77667°E / 55.77111; 23.77667 Smock
Baltoji Tower
Darbėnai Smock
Diržiai 56°13′14″N 24°00′20″E / 56.22056°N 24.00556°E / 56.22056; 24.00556 Smock
Katinai 55°35′01″N 24°24′22″E / 55.58361°N 24.40611°E / 55.58361; 24.40611 Tower
Kleboniškiai 55°46′12″N 23°50′58″E / 55.77000°N 23.84944°E / 55.77000; 23.84944 Smock
Lazdininkai 56°00′24″N 21°13′00″E / 56.00667°N 21.21667°E / 56.00667; 21.21667 Smock
Meldinai 55°51′17″N 23°52′55″E / 55.85472°N 23.88194°E / 55.85472; 23.88194 Smock
Obeliai Tower
Paežeriai 55°48′49″N 23°41′39″E / 55.81361°N 23.69417°E / 55.81361; 23.69417 Smock
Paluobiai 54°52′30″N 23°14′28″E / 54.87500°N 23.24111°E / 54.87500; 23.24111 Smock
Purpliai Smock
Rumšiškės Rumšiškės Open Air Museum Smock Tower Moved from Samogitia
Šeduva Tower
Šiauliai 55°55′24″N 23°19′19″E / 55.92333°N 23.32194°E / 55.92333; 23.32194 Smock 1875–1880
Šeduva Devil's Mill Tower
Sodeliškiai 55°37′51″N 24°26′04″E / 55.63083°N 24.43444°E / 55.63083; 24.43444 Tower
Sovaičiai Smock
Stačiūnai Smock
Stultiškiai Smock
Telšiai Smock
Traupis 55°30′45″N 24°44′14″E / 55.51250°N 24.73722°E / 55.51250; 24.73722 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
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
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 / 56.76167°N 53.05389°E / 56.76167; 53.05389 		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 / 58.52250°N 31.27028°E / 58.52250; 31.27028 Smock
Yakovlevsky District,
Belgorod Oblast 		Post

Slovakia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Korňa Photo
Holíč Tower 1880s

Spain

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
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
Colonia del Sacramento El Torreón
34°28′13″S 57°51′11″W / 34.4704°S 57.853°W / -34.4704; -57.853 		Tower Converted to restaurant.
Windmill World
Minas Molino Viejo
34°22′39″S 55°14′38″W / 34.3776°S 55.244°W / -34.3776; -55.244 		Tower Windmill World
Montevideo Mirador Rosario
34°51′12″S 56°08′24″W / 34.8533°S 56.140°W / -34.8533; -56.140 		Tower Destroyed in a storm in 1977.
Windmill World
Solymar Museo del Pan
34°22′50″S 55°57′14″W / 34.3806°S 55.954°W / -34.3806; -55.954 		Smock Windmill World
Unión, Montevideo Del Galgo
34°52′24″S 56°07′59″W / 34.8734°S 56.133°W / -34.8734; -56.133 		Tower 1900 Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011.
Windmill World

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills (PDF). London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231.
  3. ^ "Mozia: Sicily Tourist Guide | Italy Heaven".

See also