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Bouwel Windmill

Bouwel Windmill

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Bouwel Windmill

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Location: Grobbendonk, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Claudine en Robert🇧🇪🚴

June 13, 2023

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Originally, the residents of Bouwel were obliged to have their grain ground in the grobbendonk ban mill. Only after the French Revolution in 1789 did Bouwel get its own windmill with accompanying mill house. The old mill was burned down in 1914 for strategic reasons by the retreating Belgian army. Only the dice remained standing. The post mill of Westerlo-Voortkapel was purchased with the compensation for war damage and rebuilt in the same place in 1925. This mill probably dates from 1713.

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Viviane

October 29, 2022

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The Molen van Bouwel is a post mill and is located with accompanying mill houses in Bouwel in the municipality of Grobbendonk, near the dividing canal between Bouwel and Echelpoel, in the province of Antwerp.[1] The mill is a grain windmill and has been protected as a monument since 1943.[2][3] source: Wikipedia

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

October 23, 2021

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Our experience of this highlight is yet to be written...
In the meantime you can enjoy the rotating blades. Don't get too close or you'll get a blow from the mill.

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Elevation 50 m

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Saturday 27 June

29°C

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45 %

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Max wind speed: 15.0 km/h

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Location: Grobbendonk, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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