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De Hollandsche Molen is a small resort town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. The settlement is situated next to the Wemmershoek River about 2 km north of Wemmershoek and about 9 km north-west of Franschhoek .
De Hollandsche Molen The Aalstermolen ( English : Aalster Mill ) is a windmill located on the Raadhuisstraat 28A in Aalst , Waalre , in the province of North Brabant , Netherlands . Built in 1904 on an artificial hill, the windmill functioned as gristmill .
De Hollandsche Molen De Roosdonck is a windmill located at the Gerwenseweg 2 in Nuenen , in the province of North Brabant , Netherlands . Built in 1884, the windmill was initially planned to be built as a smock mill .
Windmills are known worldwide as an iconic symbol of Dutch culture.Some 1,200 historic windmills survive, most of which are gristmills or polder mills. Many remain fully functional, and their upkeep and operation is promoted by a number of civic organizations, including De Hollandsche Molen, Gilde van Vrijwillige Molenaars and Stichting De Fryske Mole.
The windmill remained property of the Van Bronckhorst family and later, by marriage, the Törring family until it was confiscated by the government in the French-Batavian period and publicly sold in 1805. The buyer was Van Gulpen who sold the mill on to miller Jacobus Jacobs who expanded the milling business with a farm.
Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen (Dutch pronunciation: [vəˈreːnəɣɪŋ də ˈɦɔlɑntsə ˈmoːlə(n)]) (English: Dutch Windmill Association) [2] is a Dutch organization founded in 1923 to preserve windmills in the Netherlands, to document them, and to restore them.
De Hollandsche Molen De Arend ( English : The Eagle ) is a windmill located on the Molenstraat 40 in Terheijden , Drimmelen , in the province of North Brabant , Netherlands . Built in 1742 the windmill functioned as a gristmill .
The foundation restored and owned the windmill until its dissolution in 1957 and the mill returned to De Hollandse Molen who in turn sold it to municipally Haarlem in 1963. De Eenhoorn is operated by Stichting Molens Zuid-Kennemerland since 1984. [2] The sawing mechanisms were restored so the mill was fully functional again by 1990.