Water & Wicks

GRIND FOR DRY FEET
There used to be a wadden area with islands, creeks and channels behind the dune area of Voorne. When the water was high, the islands flooded and a layer of clay remained. Pieces of land that eventually remained dry at high tide were reclaimed. In the lowest polders there was a polder mill to drain the excess water. This is how Voorne took its shape in a few centuries with the windmills in the landscape as a reminder.
STANDARD, PROPOSAL AND CORNS
In 1697 there was a wooden standerd mill on the place where the dry dock is now. This mill had to make way for the Dry Dock at the end of the 18th century. The stone tower mill'De Hoop\\\' was built in 1801. Downstairs, the flour wagons could drive under the hatches to be loaded or unloaded. This passage was restored to its former glory during the restoration of 1962-1961.
GROUND SAILER WITH SEA VIEW
The Zeezicht windmill near Nieuwenhoorn dates from 1718. It is a round stone ground sail. Its predecessor on the same site was a wooden post mill that blew down in 1717. Until 1966, the flour mill operated with three pairs of grinding stones. Since the restorations in the nineties, the mill is operational again. When the mill is running, it is open to the public.
NO MORE GRAIN BUT POWER
All historic mills are traditional four-blade mills. But Voorne-Putten also has modern tall windmills with three enormous blades that, with the help of the ever-present wind, provide sustainable energy to homes and businesses in the industrial area. No miller is involved here, everything is computer controlled. Cycling past the windmills on Voorne Putten is cycling past, present and future.
WINDMILL'T FLYING DEER, BRIELLE
The mill is a standard mill built in 1985. It stands as a rampart on the ramparts of the city, on the spot where a flour mill has stood since the seventeenth century. The mill burned out in 1810 and was rebuilt in 1811. This also burned out in 1882. After this, the mill was demolished. In 1970, during a restoration of the fortress, the dice of the old standard mill were found. It was decided to build a replica of this mill.
GROUND SAILER ON Elevation
The flour mill of Oostvoorne was built in 1821. It is a round stone groundsheet on a natural elevation. The unnamed mill with two pairs of stones milled by wind until 1950. After that, only electrical milling was used. In 1964 the mill was restored, but in 2003 a major restoration had to be carried out to make the mill ready to grind again.
CORN MILL ROCKANJE
The oldest windmill in Voorne-Putten stands, like a work of art between two halves of the road, in Rockanje. After six post mills on the same site, the oldest of which was built in 1388, this was the first stone mill. It could not blow over, a fate that had befallen all the standard mills on the dike. The mill was restored in 2008 and has been running again since 2009. View all cycling routes at www.opvoorneputten.nl