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"Location: In Rees-Bienen on the lower Lower Rhine, the mill Rosau is located in the floodplain landscape crossed by old arms of the Rhine. Meadows and pastures dominate the landscape. The mill Rosau is located outside the town and stands on the inside of the dike to the Bienener Altrheinarm nature reserve.

Building: The 4-storey windmill is a single building within a farm complex. It is a whitewashed tower made of bricks that can be seen from afar. The straight, cylindrical tower rises above a wide clinker-clad base floor that reaches about the height of the dike. The roof hood, wing cross, cod end and wall are missing. The empty building no longer has the gears or grinding gear. Several millstones lean against the outer wall of the base floor. There are no other indications of the tower's function as a mill.

History: The history of the mill Rosau is still obscure today. It is unknown when the tower was built, but it was probably in the 14th century. The mill tower is said to have once belonged to the nearby Rosau Castle of the Count of Kleve, which was rebuilt after a fire in the immediate vicinity of the tower. It is assumed that the tower had a dual function: defensive tower and mill. The tower is said to have served as a windmill as late as the 18th century.

The tower is currently empty and is occasionally used as a storage room.

Architectural monument: The Rosau windmill is listed as an architectural monument of the city of Rees under monument number A 19."

(Elisabeth Zenses, Rheinisches Mühlen-Dokumentationszentrum e.V., 2017, recorded as part of the joint project "Recording of the mills in the Rhineland")

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Location: Rees, Kreis Kleve, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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