Molen de Ster
Working wind-powered sawmill rebuilt by neighbours, with logs soaking in the canal-side yard.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Molen de Ster in Utrecht's Lombok district starts with a mechanical puzzle from the fifteen-nineties and the windmill owner from Uitgeest who set out to solve it. It follows that idea to the eighteenth-century sawmill on the Leidsche Vaart canal, and to the neighbours who spent years campaigning for the mill you see now. Best heard from the canal side, where tree trunks lie soaking in the water.
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