page_title: Windmills in Leeuwarden
section_title: De Visser, De Visker, Molen de Van de Wint, Molen van Timmermans
hierarchical_section_title: Windmills in Leeuwarden / Vanished windmills / De Visser, De Visker, Molen de Van de Wint, Molen van Timmermans
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Diversen: Zoutmolen aan Houtpolle
context_page_description: The city of Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands has had at least 130 windmills over the centuries. Only one, the Froskepôlemolen survives today within Leeuwarden. Six other mills which have stood in Leeuwarden survive elsewhere in the Netherlands. The mills had a wide range of industrial and agricultural uses. The industrial uses include the processing of bark for tanning leather, the fulling of cloth, the production of cement, the production of dyes, the extraction of oil, the grinding of tobacco to produce snuff, the production of gunpowder, and the sawing of timber. Agricultural uses include the milling of buckwheat, oats, rye and wheat, the processing of chicory, the production of pearl barley, and the pumping of water.
context_section_description: A windmill was built on this site in 1662. This mill had a wooden windshaft. It was probably replaced in 1740 by a new mill. De Visser or De Fisker (English: The Fisherman) was a stellingmolen. It was named after its owners, who were the Fiske family in the mid-nineteenth century. It stood in Oldegalileën, along the Dokkummer Ee at 53°12′44″N 5°48′09″E. The mill was later owned by De Wint from 1871. The mill was dismantled in 1910, and a 38 horsepower (28 kW) electric motor installed. The smock was left standing. De Wint died in 1933, and the mill was owned by Timmermans in 1947. On 16 January 1964, the mill was burnt down, although at the time there were plans to demolish it as it stood on the route of a bypass that was planned to be built around Leeuwarden.
caption: De Visser, 1963.
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