De Ster
Working snuff and spice windmill on a lakeshore, grinding cinnamon and pepper by wind power.
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About this audio guide
This guide to De Ster, the gallery windmill on the Kralingse Plas in Rotterdam, follows a mill that was never built to grind bread, and the small pleasure it served for well over a century. It touches the tobacco bundles made next door at its sister mill De Lelie, the fires that twice reshaped it, and the volunteers who still set its sails turning. Best heard on the lakeside path, looking up at the wooden gallery.
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