Due to the wetland area in the vicinity of Zwolle

Genemuiden is located on the Zwarte Water, the flood plains of which are the main habitat of the purplish kivietsbloem. Genemuiden is the third largest city in Northwest Overijssel, also known as the Kop van Overijssel. Traditionally, Genemuiden has mainly depended on rush cultivation. Processing rushes was an important source of income for the city. You will also see many watercourses, because the area has been heavily reclaimed. There are three types of polders in the Netherlands: reclamation, embankment and reclamation. Open water has been reclaimed in a polder. Here a lake or puddle has literally been dried up. An embankment is an impoldering of an area on the coast. It is often salt marshes that have dried up here and dikes protect the area and now keep the water away. During a reclamation, natural wasteland has been reclaimed and prepared for cultural processing. Reclamation does not therefore always have to result in a polder landscape, former peat, marsh, heath or dune areas can of course also be given a different destination. In Hasselt you can visit the beautiful corn mill De Zwaluw  to admire. The first mill on this site was built in 1784, but it was necessary to rebuild it after a fire in 1857. The stellingmolen has a few beautiful company buildings that once belonged to the mill complex. A voluntary miller still regularly puts De Zwaluw into operation. Another beautiful example is the Monnikenmolen in Sint Jansklooster. The tower mill, built in 1857, is covered with thatch. This mill also functioned and still functions as a corn mill. Where De Zwaluw is more built in, this mill and the outbuildings can be seen from afar. A beautiful picture!