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A herd of water buffalo 🐂 right next to the road. They react a bit nervously and warily if you stop there. So don't provoke them or startle them.

Beautiful watermill with park, which also opens its doors on Heritage Open Day.

Brick church from 1701, reusing parts of a previous building. The western freestanding wooden bell tower with a bent spire dates from the early 17th century.

Roadside cycle path between Zollbaum and Bülkau, partly uneven and bumpy

Great windmill in Bad Bederkesa with a great view of the surrounding nature.

For one euro, you can operate the mill and let the mill wheel spin for 10 minutes. It's wonderful to listen to the rippling water.

Long before the discovery of electricity and the inventions associated with it, our ancestors discovered the possibility of harnessing the power of the elements - which could be useful on the one hand, but also a threat as a force of nature on the other - for various purposes. A good example of the human inventiveness of earlier generations is such a mill: the heavy millstones used to grind grain or press oil, for example, could be powered by water or - as here - the wind. Only a few of them still fulfill their original function today, but fortunately some have at least survived as evidence of the old days.

Using the power of moving water to drive a mill wheel is an ancient invention of the human spirit of discovery, the origins of which can be traced back to times long past. Thanks to such a construction, a watercourse - natural or artificial - could simply replace human or animal muscle power with the power of the natural elements, for example to grind grain into corn or to press oil from fruit. There are essentially two different ways of driving watermills: * Either the flowing water simply hits the blades of the water wheel from below to set it in motion; or * the water is guided above the wheel - usually through a so-called "mill channel" - and falls onto the blades; this type of construction is more efficient due to natural gravity.