Waardenburg, Netherlands (AFP) Aug 28, 2026
"It has a right to the wind," says Dutchman Koen van der Kroon, supervising from his vantage point on a dyke as a centuries-old windmill is lifted painstakingly inch-by-inch. The Waardenburg windmill - a rare hexagonal mill still grinding grain today - has graced the banks of the Waal on the Rhine delta for 250 years and is ...
"It has a right to the wind," says Dutchman Koen van der Kroon, supervising from his vantage point on a dyke as a centuries-old windmill is lifted painstakingly inch-by-inch. The Waardenburg windmill - a rare hexagonal mill still grinding grain today - has graced the banks of the Waal on the Rhine delta for 250 years and is ...