Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Leiden, Netherlands

The Pauluskerk is a church building from 1932, designed by the architect F.B. Jantzen, in the Dutch municipality of Oegstgeest, in the province of South Holland. Since 2007, the church building has housed the Cultural Center De Paulus.

Wikipedia: Pauluskerk (Oegstgeest) (NL)

The Leidse Hout is a public urban park in Leiden, Netherlands. It is located between the border of Oegstgeest, approximately 1.5 kilometers northwest of the Leiden city center, and on the northern border of the Leiden Diaconessenhuis hospital.

Wikipedia: Leidse Hout (EN)

The Kikkermolen is a windmill in the Dutch city of Leiden. The mill dates from 1752 and was built for the drainage of the Kikkerpolder, replacing a mill that burned down in 1747. In the intervening years, the polder was drained by the nearby Maredijk mill.

Wikipedia: Kikkermolen (NL)

The windmill 't Poeltje in Warmond is a small polder mill built in 1787 that served until 1924. The mill had an auger that had to raise the water up to two meters. In 1957 the mill was dismantled and put into use as a summer cottage. The mill then fell into disrepair, until there was not much left but a ruin. Only after 't Poeltje was designated as a national monument could the Rijnlandse Molenstichting, which had the mill on a long lease since 1979, do something to preserve this small but graceful mill. In 2005 the mill was rebuilt and made operational. The restoration was completed on June 10, 2006. During the restoration, a king's spindle was installed so that the mill can be given a function again in the future. New construction has advanced from Oegstgeest to close to 't Poeltje and the comparatively too high houses right next to the mill have considerably affected the mill biotope and its landscape value.

Wikipedia: 't Poeltje (NL)

De Herder is a sawmill in the Dutch city of Leiden. The mill dates from 1884 and was built for the sawmill there. He replaced an earlier paltrok mill, which had been struck by lightning. The mill was not new: it had previously stood as a sawmill in Amsterdam as "De Kat". De Herder sawed on wind power until 1926; After that, decay set in. During the Second World War, from 1941 onwards, sawing was again carried out using wind power, but using the now built-in high-speed sawing machine that was driven by the wind with the help of transmission belts, instead of the electric motor that had been installed in 1926. The original vertical saw frames have been removed.

Wikipedia: De Herder (Leiden) (NL)