List of windmills
Appearance
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The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump.
Africa
South Africa
Asia
Israel
Japan
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Kamiyūbetsu | Smock | ![]() | |||
Kita | Smock | ![]() | |||
Maebashi, Gunma | Michinoeki Green Flower Stock Farm | Smock | ![]() | ||
Sakura | De Liefde | Tower | 1994 | ![]() | |
Shodoshima | Tower | The windmill is presented to Shōdo Island from Milos, Greece. | ![]() | ||
Tome | Location: 38°41′23.3″N 141°08′11.3″W / 38.689806°N 141.136472°W | Tower | ![]() |
Syria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Homs | Krak des Chevaliers | Tower | One of the towers had a windmill (far right in picture).[1] | ![]() | |
Quneitra | Trestle | Pumping mill (Photo) | |||
Tartus | Smock | Photo dated 2007 |
Taiwan
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dongshih | Tower | ![]() |
Thailand
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chiangmai | Hollow post | ![]() |
Australia
Australia
New Zealand
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Auckland | Partington's Mill | Tower | ![]() | ||
Foxton | De Molen | Smock | 2003 | De Molen | ![]() |
Nelson | Founders Heritage Park | Smock | ![]() |
Europe
Austria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bad Traunstein | Post | ![]() | |||
Markgrafneusiedl | Tower | ||||
Podersdorf am See | Tower | ||||
Retz | Tower | ![]() | |||
Retz | (second mill) | Tower | ![]() | ||
Riegersburg | Tower | ![]() |
Belarus
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Kaliadzičy | 52°38′16″N 24°33′15″E / 52.63778°N 24.55417°E | Post | |||
Minsk | State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life | Post | Moved from Damatkanavichy | ![]() | |
Minsk | State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life | Post | Moved from Yanushowka | ![]() | |
Minsk | Smock | ![]() | |||
Stroczycy | Post | ![]() |
Belgium
Bulgaria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Nesebar | Post | ![]() | |||
Nesebar | Tower | ![]() | |||
Nesebar | Tower | ||||
Pravda | Post | ||||
Belintsi | 43°39′16″N 26°57′15″E / 43.654514°N 26.954275°E | early 20th century | ![]() | ||
Rila | Post | ![]() | |||
Sozopol | Post |
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Åland | Post | ![]() | |||
Åland Islands | Post | ![]() | |||
Finström, Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Hartola | Post | ![]() | |||
Järvenpää | Post | ![]() | |||
Konnevesi | Konnevesi Museum | Post | |||
Korpoström, Korpo | Hembygdsmuseum | Post | |||
Kotka | Post | ![]() | |||
Liminka | Post | ||||
Loviisa | Smock | ![]() | |||
Luopajarvi | Post | ![]() | |||
Oulu | Turkansaari Open Air Museum 64°56′51″N 25°42′25″E / 64.94750°N 25.70694°E |
Post | |||
Pälkäne | 61°20′15″N 24°16′17″E / 61.33750°N 24.27139°E | Smock | ![]() | ||
Pudasjärvi | Post | ![]() | |||
Samppalinna, Turku | Tower | 1860 | ![]() | ||
Sagalund | Post | ![]() | |||
Seurasaari | Seurasaari Open Air Museum | Post | ![]() | ||
Sideby | Post | ![]() | |||
Tornio | Post | ![]() | |||
Tyrnävä | Post | ![]() | |||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ![]() | |||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ![]() | |||
Uusikaupunki | Smock | ![]() | |||
Vaala | Post | ||||
Östra Simskäla, Vårdö, Åland | Post | ![]() | |||
Vuonna | Smock | ![]() |
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Debrecen | Hortobágy Windmill | Tower | ![]() | ||
Dusnok | Szentendrei Néprajzi Múzeum | Tower | |||
Jánoshalma | Tower | ||||
Kengyel | Tower | ||||
Kiskunfélegyháza | Tower | ![]() | |||
Kiskunhalas | Tower | ![]() | |||
Ópusztaszer | Tower | Late 19th century | ![]() | ||
Sopron | Tower | ![]() | |||
Sopron | Tower | ![]() | |||
Szegvár | Tower | ||||
Szeged | Kiskundorozsma Windmill | Tower | ![]() | ||
Tataháza | Tower | ![]() | |||
Tés | Tower |
Ireland
Italy
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bibbona | Tower | ![]() | |||
Laguna di Orbetello | Molino Spagnolo | Tower | ![]() | ||
Margherita di Savoia | Titt wind engine | ||||
Marsala | (two mills) | Tower | Pumping mills for salt works | ![]() | |
Mozia | Tower | Former pumping mill for salt works, now a salt museum[2] | ![]() | ||
Trapani | Tower | ||||
Valle Benedetta | 48°31′24″N 10°25′00″E / 48.52333°N 10.41667°E | Tower |
Latvia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Asare | Tower | ![]() | |||
Cēsis | Āraišu Windmill | Tower | ![]() | ||
Cēsis | Cēsis Windmill | Tower | ![]() | ||
Elkšņi | Tower | ||||
Ķīru | 56°31′55″N 24°32′11″E / 56.53194°N 24.53639°E | Smock | ![]() | ||
Nīca | 56°22′45″N 20°29′12″E / 56.37917°N 20.48667°E | Smock | ![]() | ||
Otaņķi | Rudes Windmill 56°23′18″N 21°05′46″E / 56.38833°N 21.09611°E |
Tower | ![]() | ||
Piltene | 57°13′46″N 21°40′00″E / 57.22944°N 21.66667°E | Smock | Base remains. | ![]() | |
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | ![]() | ||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | ![]() | ||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | ![]() | ||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | ![]() | ||
Ruba | Tower | ![]() | |||
Sēļi | Smock | ![]() | |||
Valdgale | 57°17′11″N 22°34′16″E / 57.28639°N 22.57111°E | Tower | ![]() |
Lithuania
Malta
Netherlands
Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Bucharest | Village Museum | Post | ![]() | ||
Bucharest | Museum of the Romanian Peasant | Post | ![]() | ||
Letea | Post | ![]() | |||
Sibiu | Muzeul Tehnicii Popular de la Sibiu | Post | ![]() | ||
Unknown location | Post | ![]() |
Russia
Slovakia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Korňa | Photo | ||||
Holíč | Tower | 1880s | ![]() |
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayvalık | Tower | House converted | |||
Bodrum | Tower | Several mills | |||
Datça | (four mills) | Tower | ![]() |
Ukraine
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pyrohiv | Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography (three mills) |
Smock | |||
Pyrohiv | Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography (five mills) |
Post | |||
Prelesne | Post | ![]() |
United Kingdom
Channel Islands
Isle of Man
North America
Antigua
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Betty's Hope | Betty's Hope Mills (two mills) |
Tower | ![]() |
Barbados
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St Andrew | Morgan Lewis Mill | Tower | Website | ![]() | |
St Andrew | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Andrew | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Andrew | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Lucy | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Peter | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Peter | Tower | ![]() | |||
St Philip | Tower | ![]() |
Canada
Guadeloupe
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante | Moulin Bezard | Tower | ![]() | ||
Le Moule | Moulin du Distrillerier Damoiseau | Tower | |||
Marie-Galante | Tower | ![]() |
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint John Figtree Parish, Nevis | Montpelier Plantation Mill | Tower mill | ![]() |
United States
In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.
South America
Brazil
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arapoti | Smock | ![]() | |||
Carambei | Smock | ![]() | |||
Holambra | Moinho Povos Unidos | Smock | ![]() | ||
Paraná | Moinho Castrolando | Smock | |||
Uberlândia | Smock | ![]() |
Uruguay
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colonia del Sacramento | El Torreón 34°28′13″S 57°51′11″W / 34.4704°S 57.853°W |
Tower | Converted to restaurant. Windmill World |
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Minas | Molino Viejo 34°22′39″S 55°14′38″W / 34.3776°S 55.244°W |
Tower | Windmill World | ||
Montevideo | Mirador Rosario 34°51′12″S 56°08′24″W / 34.8533°S 56.140°W |
Tower | Destroyed in a storm in 1977. Windmill World |
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Solymar | Museo del Pan 34°22′50″S 55°57′14″W / 34.3806°S 55.954°W |
Smock | Windmill World | ||
Unión, Montevideo | Del Galgo 34°52′24″S 56°07′59″W / 34.8734°S 56.133°W |
Tower | 1900 | Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011. Windmill World |
References
- ^ Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills (PDF). London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231.
- ^ "Mozia: Sicily Tourist Guide | Italy Heaven".
See also