Wemeldinge, Hansweert and Yerseke

No wild nature in Zuid-Beveland, but neatly landscaped polders with tight arable land that is used for agriculture and fruit growing. On the peninsula between the Oosterschelde and Westerschelde, the battle against the rising water has been won and the fertile land is gratefully cultivated. This part of Zeeland did not yet exist in the third and fourth centuries, but from the Middle Ages onwards the area was reclaimed piece by piece. In 1530 during the St. Felix Flood and in 1570 during the All Saints Flood, the water reclaimed a large part of the land, but the most famous flood in Dutch history is undoubtedly the Flood of 1953. The eastern part of Zuid-Beveland was flooded. to stand. The peninsula has benefited greatly from the construction of the Delta Works, which made Central Zeeland more accessible to the rest of the Netherlands. After just one and a half kilometres, a beautiful windmill presents itself. Close by in the village of Wemeldinge is the Aeolus mill, a grist and peeling mill that was built in 1869. This tower mill was the response to the construction of the De Hoop flour mill (elsewhere in the village) and, in order to surpass this mill, it is higher and larger than that mill. The mill has three pairs of grinding stones and a peeling stone. The rods are the oldest rods still in use in the Netherlands and date from 1871. The mill is named after a Greek wind god and it is therefore not difficult to guess that the mill derived its power to turn and grind from this element. Nowadays, the Aeolus is occasionally put into operation by a volunteer miller.