Molen Rijn en Zon
Towering brick grain mill from 1913 with a high gallery, rebuilt from parts of older city mills.
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This guide to Molen Rijn en Zon in Utrecht starts on a stormy day in March 1949, when the tallest windmill in the province met weather it could not handle. It reaches back to the vegetable auction that displaced an older mill, a builder whose money ran out, and the miller who stepped in, then forward to the years when the city weighed what to do with it. Best heard from the corner of Adelaarstraat and Merelstraat, looking up at the stage.
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