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Watermills In Limburg (Netherlands)
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as mill (grinding), milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of many material goods, including flour, lumber, paper, textiles, and many metal products. These watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills. One major way to classify watermills is by wheel orientation (vertical or horizontal), one powered by a vertical waterwheel through a Gear train, gear mechanism, and the other equipped with a horizontal waterwheel without such a mechanism. The former type can be further divided, depending on where the water hits the wheel paddles, into undershot, overshot, breastshot and pitchback (backshot or reverse shot) waterwheel mills. Another way to classify water mills is by an essential trait abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braine-le-Château JPG02
Braine-le-Château (; wa, Brinne-Tchestea; nl, Kasteelbrakel, ) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgium, Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006, Braine-le-Château had a total population of 9,446. The total area is 22.70 km² which gives a population density of 416 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following deelgemeente, districts: Braine-le-Château and Wauthier-Braine, which were municipalities of their own until 1977. Braine-le-Château is a medieval village in which remain many buildings from the Middle Ages. Among them are the pillory (1521), the village mill (c. 1200) and the ''Maison du Bailli'' (c. 1535). Braine-le-Château JPG01.jpg, the pillory and the ''Bailli House'' Moulin seigneurial.jpg, ''Moulin banal'' (mill) Braine-le-Château JPG05.jpg, The ''Binchfort'' farm (16th century) References External links * Official website Braine-le-Château, Municipalities of Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
