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Zaanse Schans 8
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This is another picture of this series. It's taken in the so called 'Zaanse Schans' (a historic open-air heritage village near the city of Zaandam, The Netherlands).
The 'Zaanse Schans' is a Dutch popular tourist attraction offering insights into traditional Dutch crafts, and architecture, but mainly traditional Dutch windmills.
Depicted is the windmill 'De Gekroonde Poelenburg', a rare paltrok style sawmill (a kind of post mill found in Germany and The Netherlands).
It's one of only two remaining functional paltrok mills in this region, historically used for sawing timber.
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John, the other traditional windmill is 'De Kat'.
It's not a 'Paltrok' type windmill, but a so called 'octagonal smock mill', capable of producing paint (grinding raw materials, including minerals and chalk, to make pigments for paints traditionally).
About your second question: although the most parts of my small country are below sea level, it's in normal situations well protected by all kind of provisions like sea embankments, locks, and water pump installations. The last flooding disaster happened in 1953 where more than 1850 people were drowned.
PS: I was then a victim too, but I survived!
