Outhouse at "De Gekroonde Poelenburg" Windmill - Zaanse Schans - Zaanstad, Netherlands
Posted by: tmob
N 52° 28.465 E 004° 49.070
31U E 623466 N 5815359
The outhouse of the "De Gekroonde Poelenburg" windmill at Zaanse Schans
Waymark Code: WMKC1G
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 03/17/2014
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Zaanse Schans
«Zaanse Schans is a neighbourhood of Zaandam, near Zaandijk in the municipality of Zaanstad in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It has a collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses.; the ca. 35 houses from all over the Zaanstreek were moved to the museum area in the 1970s. The Zaans Museum, established in 1994, is located in the Zaanse Schans.
The Zaanse Schans is one of the popular tourist attractions of the region and an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The neighbourhood attracts approximately 900,000 visitors every year.
The windmills were built after 1574.»
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De Gekroonde Poelenburg
«De Gekroonde Poelenburg (English: The Crowned Poelenburg) is a paltrok mill in Zaandam, Noord Holland, Netherlands which has been restored to working order. As all Dutch paltrok mills it is a windpowered sawmill. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 40093.»
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