Watermill
English: A watermill is a building/object to use the power of flowing water to get useful energy.
Deutsch: Ein Wasserrad dient dazu die Energie von fließendem Wasser zu nutzen.
Français : Un moulin à eau est un bâtiment doté d'une machinerie qui utilise un cours d'eau pour générer de l'énergie utile. Le terme désigne aussi la machinerie elle-même.
Walon : On molén a l' aiwe, c' est on molén ki toûne avou ene rowe di molén enondêye pa l' aiwe d' on bî (d' molén) ki toume dissu; gn a des rowes ås pots (l' aiwe arive ådzeu, payis d' tiene come e l' Årdene) et des rowes ås pales (l' aiwe arive ådzo, plins come el Gåme).
Illustrations
- Water wheel; undershot
- Water wheel; middle shot
- Water wheel; overshot
- Watermill scheme
- Deutsch: Antike SägemühleEnglish: Ancient sawmill
Photos of watermills
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
- 15th century Watermill in Hosdent,Belgium
- destroyed mill near Eben Emael, May 1940
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
in France
- ARAM Moulin à eau Villeneuve-d'Ascq.- 59650
- Le moulin de l'Abbaye de Maroilles.- 59550
- La roue à augets du moulin à eau (1466) Musée des Bois Jolis de Felleries.- 59740
- La roue à augets du moulin à eau (1466) Musée des Bois Jolis de Felleries.- 59740
- 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
in Germany
Main gallery: Watermills in Germany.
Mill Malzfeldt in Sarstedt
- Mill Malzfeldt
- Mill Malzfeldt
- River Innerste
others
- Die Cordinger Mühle an der Warnau in Benefeld
- Die Cordinger Mühle mit Teichanlage
- Watermill in Mühlen
- Odiliemühle in Göttingen
- Watermill in Sythen
- Watermill in Saxony
- 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
in Italy
Main gallery: Watermills in Italy.
- Watermill in Treviso
in Serbia
- Watermill cottage оn Gradac river
- Watermill оn Gradac river
- Water outlet to the watermill
in Poland
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
- Veržej Babič Mill Floating mill
- Azenha de Santa Cruz
- Hungry
- Portugal
in art
See also: Watermills in art
- Helen Johnson: The Maid of the Mill
- Carl T. Reiffenstein: The Müllermain
- François Boucher: The Mill
- Medieval mill
- Medieval mill
- Song Dynasty grain mill