Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Leiden, Netherlands

The Stadsmolen or Stadspoldermolen in the Dutch city of Leiden is a polder mill built in 1856 to replace an earlier mill from 1806. The strongly bottle-shaped masonry mill was in operation until 1966. In 1979 the mill was restored, and the hull appeared to be torn in several places. It was then decided to demolish the Stadsmolen to the ground and rebuild it. The mill is located on the Slaaghsloot, a ditch that was popularly called "Stinksloot", because carcasses were buried next to it. The miller's house next to the Stadsmolen was built because the mill smelled too bad to live in.

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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.

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The Maredijkmolen is a windmill on the Groene Maredijk in the Dutch city of Leiden. The mill dates from 1735 and was built for the drainage of the Maredijkpolder. This makes it the oldest surviving windmill in Leiden. The mill is owned by the municipality of Leiden. The mill, which was last restored in 2006, runs regularly and can usually be visited at those times.

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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.

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. Although its current name and organization are relatively recent, the history of Naturalis can be traced back to the early 1800s. Its collection includes approximately 42 million specimens, making it one of the largest natural history collections in the world.

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