Tag: Old Rhine

Putmolen ~ Episode 1 “Crystal Ball”


In the Aarlanderveen polders around Alphen in Holland, here Mill #4 of the Gang of Four Mills – also known as the Putmolen (Pit mill).
This Gang of four mills (dutch : Molenviergang) is working together to upload the polder water around the Aarlanderveen village in 4 steps – by stepped drainage via basins – all together almost 5 meters , 16 feet, higher into the Old Rhine river.
This Putmolen mill (with millers Rita and Johan Slingerland) drains the lowest part of the polder, the so-called Put (pit), where peat was still extracted when this mill was build in 1801 , after the higher part of the polder had already been milled dry. Filmed using the iPhone X on the dutch national mill day 2018.
Putmolen ~ Episode 1 “Crystal Ball” | 20201001 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com

Holland Low Lands

Holland Low Lands
Dutch polder land below sea level (‘netherlands’ = low lands) along the drainage waterway used by windmills and electric pumps for draining excess polder water into the Old Rhine river (Oude Rijn) river , direction North Sea. Film : 20200411 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com

Rembrandt Bridge


① memo 20191008 ~ Rembrandt Bridge ~ The bridge (Lange Houte Brugge) over the Old Rhine (this part is called ‘Galgewater’ because of the gallows that once stood there) in Leiden, Holland, were Rembrandt was born and that he watched being build in 1611 (rebuild 1983). The bridge connects the Weddesteeg street (were Rembrandt lived) with the Galgewater street – filmed October 2009.

Blue Windmill’s Oostvaart Waterway ~ Pinhole Film


① memo 20190811 ~ Blue Windmill’s Oostvaart Waterway ~ Pinhole Film ~ Blue polder windmill (“Blauwe Wip” wipmolen – blue hollow post mill – build 1636) summer 2013 on the Oostvaart waterway draining polder water into the Old Rhine river in Alphen (Hazerswoude) , Holland.
Pinhole camera : SLR Magic ‘Toy’ Pin Hole cap – f/128 aperture, 12mm focal length (24mm-equivalent), 84° angle view – mounted on a Olympus Micro Four Third camera (E-PM1).

Quay between Mills #2 and #3


① memo 20180921 ~ Quay between Mills #2 and #3 ~ Walking the quay (dutch ‘kade’) along the waterway – close to the ‘siphon’ – between Mills #2 and #3 of the quartet of windmills together dewatering (regulate the water level of) the polder west of the village Aarlanderveen (Alphen) – draining the surplus of water into the Old Rhine – last sunday in the Green Heart of Holland .

Mill #2


① memo 20180916 ~ Mill #2 ~ The second mill of the quartet of windmills working together to keep the polder dry west of the village Aarlanderveen (Alphen) in the Green Heart of Holland . The waterway drains into the Old Rhine nearby.
Mill #2 (dutch ‘Molen 2’ or ‘middenmolen’) is not turning in this video .. it’s the nearby model mill that is turning.
These are the only mills in the world that are still being used as main dewatering for a polder.
Recently the dutch decided to start using again such historic polder water windmills everywhere in the Netherlands to assist the modern electric dewatering pumps if needed .