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Kinderdijk

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About Kinderdijk

Kinderdijk is a muncipalti in South Holland, placed in the Alblasserwaard. The village is part of the municipality of Molenlanden. Kinderdijk is placed on the place wherein the North and the Lek meet. The region is particularly acknowledged for the Kinderdijk windmills. The principal interest consists of shipbuilding. Kinderdijk turned into included from the water by using two forums, the Overwaard on the east aspect of the Middelkade and the Nederwaard at the west aspect of the Middelkade.

The Nederwaard constructed 8 windmills in 1738, stone floor sailors. The second mill is open to the public. De Overwaard additionally constructed eight generators in 1740, those were 8-sided ground sailors. Kinderdijk changed into the primary Dutch location with an energy deliver, in 1886. The energy become generated in Kinderdijk by means of the first strength plant inside the Netherlands, designed and built by Willem Benjamin Smit, also one of the founders of the Electric-Light-Machine manufacturing unit Willem Smit & Co . The Kinderdijk windmills had been at the UNESCO World Heritage List considering the fact that 1997.

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