{"id":591,"date":"2011-01-02T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-windmills-and-some-past-story\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T11:01:25","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-windmills-and-some-past-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-windmills-and-some-past-story\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About The First Windmills And Some Past Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first windmills<\/a> that were used in Holland for water draining are cited in written documents during 1414. Windmills used for graining, have been around there 200 years before that. Learn more about the history of this. The oldest known documents that mentions a windmill are the rights offered to the city’s bourgeois, in 1274. The feudal superior could give the right of building a windmill<\/a>, to constrain the workers to move cereals to his windmill, and also to avoid the development or even the planting of trees around the windmill for being sure the powerful wind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In the following years, windmills spread over Holland. Useless towers that once were used for keeping gun powder were turned into mills. But the real progression of Dutch windmills occurs at the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the next one. The windmills started to be used more and more to make all sorts of manufactures. They were built from heavy wood, brought in ships from heavily forested lands from around the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The cheapest energy source<\/a> for the Dutchmen was the force of the wind. Larger and stronger windmills could drain excessive amounts of water. That was incredibly necessary as the land of Holland was frequently in the chance of being drowned by water. Because its territory was under the sea level, several great cities such as Amsterdam and Haarlem were threaten to be flooded. To illustrate of the power of the mills, within one year, the Beemster Lake was emptied by 26 windmills.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Throughout the yr 1850, about 9000 windmills were operational in Holland, perhaps the best number that ever existed there. After that date, their number started to decrease. By the end of the XIX century there were only 2500 windmills that remained.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In 1920, an idea for creating an association to safeguard the windmills was starting to take shape. This association was born in 1923, in Amsterdam. As an outcome of a petition the Dutch society of windmills wrote, in 1924 a letter to the minister of Education, Arts and Science that emphasized the significance of keeping these monuments. Similar letters were sent in 1930 and in 1939.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

By the 1st of January 1961, an agreement has become successful and according to it, any person who maintained an operational windmill received a subvention from the state. Most of the times, a windmill owned by an old person, who can’t keep it in working conditions, is taken by the governments and turned into a historic monument. Typically, it shelters a museum or it becomes a center of receptions organized in the honor of international visitors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Holland greatly owes its existence to the windmills, because, with their aid, water was kept from flooding the land and can now carry a great population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first windmills that were used in Holland for water draining are cited in written documents during 1414. Windmills used for graining, have been around there 200 years before that. Learn more about the history of this. The oldest known documents that mentions a windmill are the rights offered to the city’s bourgeois, in 1274. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[859,860,861,857,862,858],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-building-a-windmill","tag-cheapest-energy-source","tag-energy-source","tag-first-windmills","tag-source-of-energy","tag-windmills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}