List of windmills
Africa
South Africa
Asia
Israel
Japan
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kamiyūbetsu | Smock | ||||
Kita | Smock | ||||
Maebashi, Gunma | Michinoeki Green Flower Stock Farm | Smock | |||
Sakura | De Liefde | Tower | 1994 | ||
Shodoshima | Tower | The windmill is presented to Shōdo Island from Milos, Greece. | |||
Tome | Location: 38°41′23.3″N 141°08′11.3″W | Tower |
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).[1] | ||
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
Europe
Austria
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bad Traunstein | Post | ||||
Markgrafneusiedl | Tower | ||||
Podersdorf am See | Tower | ||||
Retz | Tower | ||||
Retz | (second mill) | Tower | |||
Riegersburg | Tower |
Belarus
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kaliadzičy | 52°38′16″N 24°33′15″E | Post | |||
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 | ||||
Belintsi | 43.654514°N 26.954275°E | early 20th century | |||
Rila | Post | ||||
Sozopol | Post |
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Finström, Åland Islands | Post | ||||
Hartola | Post | ||||
Järvenpää | Post | ||||
Konnevesi | Konnevesi Museum | Post | |||
Korpoström, Korpo | Hembygdsmuseum | Post | |||
Kotka | Post | ||||
Liminka | Post | ||||
Loviisa | Smock | ||||
Luopajarvi | Post | ||||
Oulu | Turkansaari Open Air Museum 64°56′51″N 25°42′25″E |
Post | |||
Pälkäne | 61°20′15″N 24°16′17″E | Smock | |||
Pudasjärvi | Post | ||||
Samppalinna, Turku | Tower | 1860 | |||
Sagalund | Post | ||||
Seurasaari | Seurasaari Open Air Museum | Post | |||
Sideby | Post | ||||
Tornio | Post | ||||
Tyrnävä | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Post | ||||
Uusikaupunki | Smock | ||||
Vaala | Post | ||||
Östra Simskäla, Vårdö, Åland | Post | ||||
Vuonna | Smock |
France
Germany
Greece
- See List of windmills in Greece
Hungary
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debrecen | Hortobágy Windmill | Tower | |||
Dusnok | Szentendrei Néprajzi Múzeum | Tower | |||
Jánoshalma | Tower | ||||
Kengyel | Tower | ||||
Kiskunfélegyháza | Tower | ||||
Kiskunhalas | Tower | ||||
Ópusztaszer | Tower | Late 19th century | |||
Sopron | Tower | ||||
Sopron | Tower | ||||
Szegvár | Tower | ||||
Szeged | Kiskundorozsma Windmill | Tower | |||
Tataháza | Tower | ||||
Tés | Tower |
Ireland
Italy
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bibbona | Tower | ||||
Laguna di Orbetello | Molino Spagnolo | Tower | |||
Margherita di Savoia | Titt wind engine | ||||
Marsala | (two mills) | Tower | Pumping mills for salt works | ||
Mozia | Tower | Former pumping mill for salt works, now a salt museum[2] | |||
Trapani | Tower | ||||
Valle Benedetta | 48°31′24″N 10°25′00″E | Tower |
Latvia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asare | Tower | ||||
Cēsis | Āraišu Windmill | Tower | |||
Cēsis | Cēsis Windmill | Tower | |||
Elkšņi | Tower | ||||
Ķīru | 56°31′55″N 24°32′11″E | Smock | |||
Nīca | 56°22′45″N 20°29′12″E | Smock | |||
Otaņķi | Rudes Windmill 56°23′18″N 21°05′46″E |
Tower | |||
Piltene | 57°13′46″N 21°40′00″E | Smock | Base remains. | ||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Smock | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | |||
Riga | The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia | Post | |||
Ruba | Tower | ||||
Sēļi | Smock | ||||
Valdgale | 57°17′11″N 22°34′16″E | Tower |
Lithuania
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aleknaičiai | Tower | ||||
Alksniupiai | 55°46′16″N 23°46′36″E | Smock | |||
Baltoji | Tower | ||||
Darbėnai | Smock | ||||
Diržiai | 56°13′14″N 24°00′20″E | Smock | |||
Katinai | 55°35′01″N 24°24′22″E | Tower | |||
Kleboniškiai | 55°46′12″N 23°50′58″E | Smock | |||
Lazdininkai | 56°00′24″N 21°13′00″E | Smock | |||
Meldinai | 55°51′17″N 23°52′55″E | Smock | |||
Obeliai | Tower | ||||
Paežeriai | 55°48′49″N 23°41′39″E | Smock | |||
Paluobiai | 54°52′30″N 23°14′28″E | Smock | |||
Purpliai | Smock | ||||
Rumšiškės | Rumšiškės Open Air Museum | Smock Tower | Moved from Samogitia | ||
Šeduva | Tower | ||||
Šiauliai | 55°55′24″N 23°19′19″E | Smock | 1875-1880 | ||
Šeduva | Devil's Mill | Tower | |||
Sodeliškiai | 55°37′51″N 24°26′04″E | Tower | |||
Sovaičiai | Smock | ||||
Stačiūnai | Smock | ||||
Stultiškiai | Smock | ||||
Telšiai | Smock | ||||
Traupis | 55°30′45″N 24°44′14″E | Tower | |||
Vaiguviskiai | Smock | ||||
Vaškai | Tower | 1898 |
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 (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bucharest | Village Museum | Post | |||
Bucharest | Museum of the Romanian Peasant | Post | |||
Letea | Post | ||||
Sibiu | Muzeul Tehnicii Popular de la Sibiu | Post | |||
Unknown location | Post |
Russia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barinovka | Smock | ||||
Cheboksarsky District | Smock | ||||
Istra | New Jerusalem Monastery Mill | Smock | |||
Kizhi | Post | ||||
Kizhi | Post | ||||
Kozmodemyansk | Mari Ethnographic Museum | Post | |||
Kupino | 'Kupino Traditional Culture Centre | Post | |||
Kursk Oblast | Post and Smock | Four mills | |||
Ludorvay | Ludorvay Architectural and Ethnographic Open-air Museum 56°45′42″N 53°03′14″E |
Smock | |||
Malye Korely | Post | ||||
Malye Korely | Post | ||||
Malye Korely | Smock | ||||
Myshkin | Smock | ||||
Perm Krai | Khokhlovka Architectural and Ethnological Museum | Smock | |||
Cheboksarsky District | Smock | Two mills | |||
Suzdal | Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life | Smock | |||
Suzdal | Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life (2nd mill) |
Smock | Rear in photo | ||
Tarkhany | Smock | ||||
Tobolsk | (four mills) | Post | |||
Tserkovshchina | Post | Standing in 1919 | |||
Velikiy Novgorod | Smock | ||||
Volgograd | Post | ||||
Volgograd | Smock | Four mills standing in 1917 | |||
Vitoslavicy | 58°31′21″N 31°16′13″E | Smock | |||
Yakovlevsky District, Belgorod Oblast |
Post |
Slovakia
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Korňa | Photo | ||||
Holíč | Tower | 1880s |
Spain
Sweden
- See List of windmills in Sweden
Turkey
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayvalık | Tower | House converted | |||
Bodrum | Tower | Several mills | |||
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 | ||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Andrew | Tower | ||||
St Lucy | Tower | ||||
St Peter | Tower | ||||
St Peter | Tower | ||||
St Philip | Tower |
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 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint John Figtree Parish, Nevis | Montpelier Plantation Mill | Tower mill |
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.
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 34°28′13″S 57°51′11″W |
Tower | Converted to restaurant. Windmill World |
||
Minas | Molino Viejo 34°22′39″S 55°14′38″W |
Tower | Windmill World | ||
Montevideo | Mirador Rosario 34°51′12″S 56°08′24″W |
Tower | Destroyed in a storm in 1977. Windmill World |
||
Solymar | Museo del Pan 34°22′50″S 55°57′14″W |
Smock | Windmill World | ||
Unión, Montevideo | Del Galgo 34°52′24″S 56°07′59″W |
Tower | 1900 | Three mills in 1900, of which one survives as of 2011. Windmill World |
References
- Bennett, Richard; Elton, John (1899). History of Corn Milling, Volume 2, Watermills and Windmills (PDF). London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 231.
- http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/sicily/mozia.html
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