Tag: windmill
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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…
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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.