Watermill

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A watermill is a building/object to use the power of flowing water to get useful energy.

Ein Wasserrad dient dazu die Energie von fließendem Wasser zu nutzen.

Un moulin à eau est un bâtiment nanti d'une machinerie qui utilise un cours d'eau pour générer de l'énergie utile. Le terme désigne aussi la machinerie elle-même.

[edit] illustration

Water wheel; undershot	Water wheel; middle shot	Water wheel; overshot	Watermill scheme
Bucket wheel	Deutsch: Antike Sägemühle English: Ancient sawmill

[edit] photos of watermills

[edit] in Belgium

mill dating from XII century in Braine-le-Château	Old watermill on the Lesse river in Dréhance.	Le Moulin Dussart in Gentinnes.	Le Moulin Faber in Hotton (1729).
Le Moulin de Scoville in Mohiville (1749).	the big mill d'Arenberg (XIXth century) in Rebecq.	the old mill (XVIIIth century) in Saint-Denis.	the old waterpomp (XIXth century) in Porcheresse)
the old waterpomp of Porcheresse	destroyed mill near Eben Emael, May 1940

[edit] in Croatia

Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka	Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka	Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka	Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka
	Das unterschlächtige Mühlrad, Majerovo vrilo, Gacka

[edit] in France

Moulin médiéval sur l'Hérault situé près du pont romain	Moulin du Nougayrol à Castanet-le-Haut (34)	Moulins de la Foux à Vissec (30)	Ancien mécanisme de moulin à eau
mechanism room of the moulin Russon

[edit] in Germany

Mill Malzfeldt in Sarstedt

Mill Malzfeldt

River Innerste

others

Watermill in Mühlen	Odiliemühle in Göttingen	Watermill in Sythen	Modern welded water wheel used in the old Water mill in Sythen
watermill in Bonn-Holzlar	water mill of Argenstein	reconstructed Springbach-Mühle (watermill) in Belzig	Schrofmühle, Wegberg-Rickelrath, NRW
Oil- and Cornmill Hopsten-Halverde, NRW	water mill in Schwerin	Dorfmühle in Trossin-Dahlenberg	Elisabethmühle in Zehdenick
„Proitzer Mühle“ in Schnega-Proitze

[edit] in Serbia

Watermill cottage оn Gradac river

Watermill оn Gradac river

Water outlet to the watermill

[edit] in Poland

Młyn w Jakubikach

watermill Pszczyna (skansen), Poland

Watermill in Iława, Poland

[edit] in other countries

Several watermills on the river pliva, Bosnia	Watermill in Denmark	ruin of a mill in Myrthios on Kreta, Greece	oil mill De Noordmolen in Deldeneresch near Delden, Netherlands
De Pol in Aalten, Netherlands, <1900	Floating mill on river Mura, Slovenia	floating mill on river Mur near Veržej, Slovenia	The Wheel, Laxey, Isle of Man, United Kingdom, ~1900
Mabry Mill on Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia	The Glade Creek Grist Mill, an iconic West Virginia attraction in Babcock State Park, WV, USA	floating mill on river Mur, Ižakovci, Slovenia