Kralingen Lake
Man-made peat lake ringed by woodland, beaches and two working snuff and spice windmills.
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This guide to Kralingen Lake in Rotterdam is about work: the peat diggers of the sixteen hundreds who fed the city's kilns and hearths, and the ground that gave way beneath them. It touches the fourteen sister lakes that were pumped dry in the eighteen hundreds, and the slow, months-long craft still practised in the two windmills on the eastern shore. Best heard on the lakeside path with the mills in view.
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