Koelewei Mill
Relocated wooden windmill on the city ramparts, its sails still turning in the open polder wind.
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This guide to Koelewei Mill on the Bruges ramparts opens with the wind sweeping off the flat polder land that made this spot ideal for milling, then traces the mill's origin in seventeen sixty-five in the inland village of Meulebeke, where it ground grain for generations before the trade around it collapsed. It follows the fate of the many windmills that once lined this rampart line and the effort, near the end of the twentieth century, to move this one here board by board. Look for its four sails, spanning close to twenty-five meters, still tilting as a miller once set them by hand.
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