List of windmills

The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump.

Contents

Africa

South Africa

Asia

Israel

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Jerusalem Montefiore Mill
Jaffa Gate Mill		 Tower 1857

Japan

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Gunma Prefecture Smock
Kamiyūbetsu Smock
Kita Smock
Sakura De Liefde Tower 1994
Setouchi Tower Public restrooms built as windmills [1]

Syria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Homs Krak des Chevaliers Tower One of the towers had a windmill (far right in picture).[2]
Quneitra Trestle Pumping mill (Photo)
Tartus Smock Photo dated 2007

Taiwan

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Dongshih Tower

Thailand

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Chiangmai Hollow post

Australia

Australia

See List of windmills in Australia

New Zealand

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Foxton De Molen Smock 2003 De Molen

Europe

Austria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Podersdorf am See Tower
Retz Tower
Retz (second mill) Tower

Belarus

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Minsk State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Post Moved from Damatkanavichy
Minsk State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Post Moved from Yanushowka
Minsk Smock
Stroczycy Post

Belgium

Bulgaria

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Nesebar Post
Nesebar Tower
Nesebar Tower
Pravda Post
Sozopol Post

Czech Republic

See List of windmills in the Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Adavere 18th century
Angla Vilidu Mill (#1)
 Post 1913 Left in photo
Angla Viite Mill (#2) Post 1910 Centre in photo
Angla Tedre Mill (#3) Smock 1927
Angla Reinu Mill (#4) Post 180? Front in Photo
Angla Laose Mill (#5) Post 1880 Back in photo
Anijala Tower 1901
Ervita 19th century
Esiküla Ristete windmill Post 19th century
Hagudi
Jõhvi 19th century
Koguva Post
Koguva Post
Kukka Post 1837
Kuremaa
Lihula 18th century
Ohessaare Post
Õngu Post 1922
Partsi 19th century
Põlma Järvakandi windmill in the first half of 19th cent.
Pootsi prob. 1832
Puhja Koni windmill 1893
Saarnaki Post 1880
Rälby Post
Tubala Post 1886
Tudulinna 19th/20th century
Valtu Puraviku windmill <1815

Finland

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Åland Islands Post
Åland Islands Post
Järvenpää Post
Konnevesi Konnevesi Museum Post
Korpoström, Korpo Hembygdsmuseum Post
Loviisa Smock
Pudasjärvi Post
Samppalinna, Turku Tower 1860
Seurasaari Seurasaari Open Air Museum Post
Sideby Post
Vaala Post
Östra Simskäla, Vårdö Post
Vuonna Smock

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Kengyel Tower
Szegvár Tower
Szentendre Tower
Szentes Dónát Tower Late C19th
Tés Tower

Ireland

Italy

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Margherita di Savoia Titt wind engine
Mozia Tower
Orbetello Tower

Latvia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Cēsis Tower

Lithuania

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Baltoji Tower
Darbėnai Smock
Obeliai Tower
Šeduva Velnio malūnas Tower
Šiauliai Žaliūkių malūnas Smock 1875-1880
Stačiūnai Smock
Stultiškiai Smock
Telšiai Smock

Malta

Netherlands

Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history.

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Bucharest Village Museum Post
Bucharest Museum of the Romanian Peasant Post
Sibiu Muzeul Tehnicii Populare de la Sibiu Post
Unknown location Post

Russia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Istra New Jerusalem Monastery Mill Smock
Kischi Post
Kozmodemyansk Mari Ethnographic Museum Post
Suzdal Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life Smock
Suzdal Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life
(2nd mill)		 Smock Rear in photo
Tobolsk (four mills) Post
Velikiy Novgorod Smock
Volgograd Post

Slovakia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Korňa Photo
Holíč Tower

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Ayvalık Tower House converted
Datça (four mills) Tower

Ukraine

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Pyrohiv Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography
(three mills)		 Smock
Pyrohiv Museum of Ukrainian Folk Architecture and Ethnography
(five mills)		 Post
Prelesne Post

United Kingdom

Channel Islands

Isle of Man

North America

Antigua

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Betty's Hope Betty's Hope Mills
(two mills)		 Tower

Barbados

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
St Andrew Morgan Lewis Mill Tower Website

Canada

See List of windmills in Canada

Guadeloupe

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante Moulin Bezard Tower
Le Moule Moulin du Distrillerier Damoiseau Tower
Marie-Galante Tower

United States

In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.

See List of windmills in the United States

South America

Brazil

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Arapoti Smock
Carambei Smock
Paraná Moinho Castrolando Smock
Uberlândia Smock

Uruguay

Location Name of mill
and coordinates		 Type Built Notes Photograph
Colonia del Sacramento El Torreón
 Tower Converted to restaurant.
Windmill World
Minas Molino Viejo
 Tower Windmill World
Montevideo Mirador Rosario
 Tower Destroyed in a storm in 1977.
Windmill World
Solymar Museo del Pan
 Smock Windmill World
Unión, Montevideo Del Galgo
 Tower 1900 Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011.
Windmill World

References

  1. ^ http://www.i-setouchi.org/ushi-windmill/
  2. ^ Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231. http://www.archive.org/download/historyofcornmil02bennuoft/historyofcornmil02bennuoft.pdf. 

See also