Watermill

English: A watermill is a building/object to use the power of flowing water to get useful energy.

Deutsch: Ein Wasserrad dient dazu die Energie von fließendem Wasser zu nutzen.

Français : Un moulin à eau est un bâtiment doté d'une machinerie qui utilise un cours d'eau pour générer de l'énergie utile. Le terme désigne aussi la machinerie elle-même.

Walon : On molén a l' aiwe, c' est on molén ki toûne avou ene rowe di molén enondêye pa l' aiwe d' on bî (d' molén) ki toume dissu; gn a des rowes ås pots (l' aiwe arive ådzeu, payis d' tiene come e l' Årdene) et des rowes ås pales (l' aiwe arive ådzo, plins come el Gåme).

Illustrations

Water wheel; undershot
Water wheel; middle shot
Water wheel; overshot
Watermill scheme
Bucket wheel
Deutsch: Antike Sägemühle
English: Ancient sawmill

Photos of watermills

in Belgium

mill dating from XII century in Braine-le-Château
Old watermill on the Lesse river in Dréhance.
Le Moulin Dussart in Gentinnes.
Le Moulin Faber in Hotton (1729).
Le Moulin de Scoville in Mohiville (1749).
the big mill d'Arenberg (XIXth century) in Rebecq.
the old mill (XVIIIth century) in Saint-Denis.
the old waterpomp (XIXth century) in Porcheresse)
the old waterpomp of Porcheresse
15th century Watermill in Hosdent,Belgium
destroyed mill near Eben Emael, May 1940

in Croatia

Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka
Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka
Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka
Watermill, Majerovo vrilo, River Gacka
Das unterschlächtige Mühlrad, Majerovo vrilo, Gacka

in France

ARAM Moulin à eau Villeneuve-d'Ascq.- 59650
Le moulin de l'Abbaye de Maroilles.- 59550
La roue à augets du moulin à eau (1466) Musée des Bois Jolis de Felleries.- 59740
La roue à augets du moulin à eau (1466) Musée des Bois Jolis de Felleries.- 59740
Moulin médiéval sur l'Hérault situé près du pont romain
Moulin du Nougayrol à Castanet-le-Haut (34)
Moulins de la Foux à Vissec (30)
Ancien mécanisme de moulin à eau
mechanism room of the moulin Russon
Moulin Saulnier, ancienne chocolaterie Meniser à Noisiel (77)

in Germany

Mill Malzfeldt in Sarstedt

Mill Malzfeldt
Mill Malzfeldt
River Innerste

others

Die Cordinger Mühle an der Warnau in Benefeld
Die Cordinger Mühle mit Teichanlage
Watermill in Mühlen
Odiliemühle in Göttingen
Watermill in Sythen
Watermill in Saxony
Modern welded water wheel used in the old Water mill in Sythen
watermill in Bonn-Holzlar
water mill of Argenstein
reconstructed Springbach-Mühle (watermill) in Belzig
Schrofmühle, Wegberg-Rickelrath, NRW
Oil- and Cornmill Hopsten-Halverde, NRW
water mill in Schwerin
Deutsch: Dreyse-Mühle in Sömmerda
English: Watermill in Sömmerda
Dorfmühle in Trossin-Dahlenberg
Elisabethmühle in Zehdenick
„Proitzer Mühle“ in Schnega-Proitze
Deutsch: Wassermühle in Putlitz
English: Watermill in Putlitz

in Italy

Watermill in Treviso

in Serbia

Watermill cottage оn Gradac river
Watermill оn Gradac river
Water outlet to the watermill

in Poland

Watermill in Jakubiki
watermill Pszczyna (skansen)
Iława
Młyn Maria we Wrocławiu

in other countries

Several watermills on the river pliva, Bosnia
Watermill in Denmark
ruin of a mill in Myrthios on Kreta, Greece
oil mill De Noordmolen in Deldeneresch near Delden, Netherlands
De Pol in Aalten, Netherlands, <1900
Floating mill on river Mura, Slovenia
floating mill on river Mur near Veržej, Slovenia
The Wheel, Laxey, Isle of Man, United Kingdom, ~1900
Mabry Mill on Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia
The Glade Creek Grist Mill, an iconic West Virginia attraction in Babcock State Park, WV, USA
floating mill on river Mur, Ižakovci, Slovenia
Veržej Babič Mill Floating mill
Azenha de Santa Cruz
Hungry
Portugal