Tag: windmill

  • De Rooie Wip

    De Rooie Wip

    Today on my morning bicycle ride, I passed this windmill called De Rooie Wip (The Red Wip). As the name suggests, the ‘Rooie Wip’ is a type of windmill called a “wipmolen,” which is derived from the “standerdmolen,” the oldest windmill type in our country.  For the origin of the name “wipmolen,” two explanations are…

  • Koeleweimolen

    Koeleweimolen

    Two people walking up to the Koeleweimolen, a windmill in the historical city of Bruges. Picture taken January 5, 2017 | Kruisvest, Bruges, Belgium This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more information, please visit my Licensing page.