Sunday, October 20, 2013

Today we visited the windmills  at the World Heritage Site in Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk is created from a Polder. A polder is a tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water, often the sea, by the construction of dikes, followed by drainage of the area between the dikes and the natural coastline. The water inside the walls of the dikes is pumped out, thereby reclaiming the land. In the case of Kinderdijk, a series of Windmills were built and at one time more than 150 windmills existed in this area of the Netherlands. Today only 16 remain.