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Built in 1743, this is the only of the city's original 19 mills that still exists. It is/was a corn-grinding windmill and is now home to a museum.
It is open from Tuesday through Saturday from 10.00 to 17.00. Sundays and holidays 13.00 to 17.00.
For the lazy people that don't like maths, the mill celebrated its 262th anniversary in 2005. Leave a Comment
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This mill was built on the location of a previous mill, but it only dates back to 1987.
It is, in my opinion, not as beautiful as the "de Valk" mill, but worth a visit nevertheless.
Located right next to the Moorsport, one of the original entrances to the city and across the place where Rembrand was born, it is just a short walk from the station and the center/shopping area.
Right next to the windmill, you have "Park de Put", a small park with a war memorial. Leave a Comment
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This is a replica of the windmill that stood here in Rembrandt days in the 17th century. Rembrandt was born in the street just across the bridge which is also a reconstruction.
It has a little playground in front of it and a war memorial to WWII.
Isn't it just postcard-pretty? Leave a Comment
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This is taken on the bridge between Morsstraat and Haarlemmerstraat and opposite Beestenmarkt.
Windmill De Valk (the falcon) is seen here in the background.
That windmill can be visited and shows you how grain is grinded (which it did until 1925). It is now a museum about Dutch milling and I went here around 1970, remembering climbing the wooden stairs and ladders as a 6 year old.
The details below are for the mill museum. Leave a Comment Address: 2e binnenvestgracht 1a 2312 BZ LeidenPhone: 071 516 5353Directions: Open Tue-Sat 10-17 hrs. Entry € 2,50 (euro) for adults and € 1,50 for children 6-16 yrs.
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I was so happy to finally see some Windmills. When I went to Amsterdam last year I didn't see any. Saw plenty on the ride from the airport to Leiden and De Put is one of the two that can be found in Leiden. Leave a Comment
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Follow the water further and you will find yourself at the foot of windmill de Put.
This windmill is a replica of the wooden cornmill built in 1619 by Jan Janszoon Put. Across the water in the Weddesteeg, the then 13 year old Rembrandt van Rijn lived. His parents had a similair windmill. A drawbridge connected the two windmills. At the walls surrounding Leiden there were 19 of these windmills. And in early sketches of Rembrandt you can find several of these windmills.
In 1640 the windmill de Put was destroyed by fire. But it was soon rebuilt. In 1729 the wooden windmill was replaced by a stone one like windmill de Valk (see general tips). It was demolished in 1817. It took untill 1987, before another windmill was built here. It is a replica of the first one. The windmill is special because the windmill as a whole turns around to get a good wind and not only the top end. Leave a Comment
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Leiden used to have 19 mills inside its city boundaries. Today there are only 2. The Put is a reconstruction of a mill that used to be here in the 17th century
The mill is open on saturday from 11-18 h and on sunday from 14-18h Leave a Comment
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On 12 May 1940, the De Valk mill was established as an observation post by the Dutch military but the capitulation followed only two days later.
The mill was fired upon from the air during the preceding wartime hostilities, leaving bullet holes in the cap and in the walls.
Following the capitulation, the mill once again had to grind grain for the locals as well as for the occupying forces and strict controls were carried out. Wheatmeal was soon only available by ration and after 1943 it became so scarce that rye and wheat had to be mixed together.
During the so-called hunger winter of 1944-1945, many people had their own limited supply of (illegal) grain ground, something which the Germans turned a blind eye to.
This was not powered by wind incidentally but by electrically driven millstones.
They also ground illegally for the resistance and any seized provisions were concealed in the mill. During this period, in which fuel was also scarce, almost all of the wooden parts (the tail-pole, props, gallery, etc.) were dismantled and used to fire the stoves.
The mill was in a deplorable state after the war but the local council fortunately recognised its cultural historical importance and funded a thorough restoration in 1947.
With the exception of Willem van Rhijn and both of his sisters, all the people that had taken residence in the mill over the years were eventually forced to leave due to the risk of fire.
The 2nd WORLD WAR was a terribly awful 5 years for us, people and....this windmill e.g., but we survived the occupation! Leave a Comment Address: 2e Binnenvestgracht 1 2312 BZ LeidenDirections: not far from the Railway Station....Website: www.leiden.nl
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From the train station it's fairly obvious that Leiden, as with many European cities, has the old town and the new town.
As you alight and head towards the old town, as I suspect most tourists do, you'll note that the bus interchange is nice and handy. Well, it would have been handy it only I'd known where I was going and therein lies a problem.
I asked people where the Tourist Information Centre was then walked to the area indicated and still couldn't see it. In fact, it was a couple of asks and someone actually showing me before I found it - after having walked past it three times! You see, unlike most other places, Leiden chooses not to use the international symbol for tourists, the capital "I", but instead uses the Dutch triple v, something I hadn't come across before.
Once I had my map I took a few short steps and couldn't help but notice a windmill in the distance. It turns out that it's a tourist windmill and, since I was a tourist, I gravitated over towards it. Naturally enough, with my luck, it was closed but still made for a nice picture. Leave a Comment
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Monday was the only day we could travel outside Amsterdam and the drawback was that many museums close on Mondays. The windmill in Leiden was one such museum...it still makes for great pictures though. Leave a Comment
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