Zandwijkse Molen

Owner is Molenstichting Land van Heusden en Altena. The mill is the last ovZandwijkse Molen is a polder mill from 1699 located between Uppel and Sleeuwijk. left mill of a series of seven mills that stood side by side.
The mill is a so-called seesaw mill and has been used as a polder mill for draining the Zandwijk polder. Parts of the mill are still in their original state, but since 2004 the condition of these parts is such that the mill is no longer operational. After the rods were ironed in September 2009, the mill was packed in September 2010 and the restoration started. On October 13, 2011, the repaired rods were inserted again.
The mill pumped the polder until 1961, first together with the other six mills and later with the help of a diesel pumping station that was built on the foundations of one of the old mills. In 1953, after the flood disaster, the mill independently drained the polder, because the diesel pumping station had become inoperable due to the salt water.
A short distance away is the Uitwijkse Molen (visible on the photo).

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