The Netherlands is situated in the prevailing westerly zone of the earth, with westerly winds blowing all year round. At the same time, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and has a typical maritime climate, with constant winds from land and sea.

This provides the Netherlands, which lacks water and power resources, with excellent compensation for the use of wind power.

The Dutch windmills were first introduced in Germany. In the beginning, windmills were only used for grinding flour and the like. By the 16th and 7th centuries, windmills were of particular importance to the Dutch economy.

At that time, the various raw materials that were at the forefront of Dutch commerce in the world were transported by various waterways to the windmills for processing: timber from the Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, cinnamon and pepper from India and South-East Asia.

In the immediate vicinity of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the great ports of the Netherlands, there are many mills, sawmills, and paper mills for windmills.

As the Dutch people's land reclamation project around the sea was carried out on a large scale, windmills played a huge role in this arduous project. They adopted the windmills to the wet and rainy climate of the region and the changing winds.

The first step was to equip the windmills with movable canopies. In addition, they mounted the canopy on rollers in order to face the wind on all sides. These windmills are known as Dutch windmills.

The largest Dutch windmills are several stories high and have wind wings up to 20 meters long. Some windmills are made from whole blocks of large crushed wood. At the end of the eighteenth century, there were about 12,000 windmills throughout the Netherlands, each with 6,000 horsepower.

These windmills were used to grind grain, coarse salt, tobacco, and oil, to tumble tweed and felt, to make paper, and to remove water from swamps. It was the constant sucking and draining of water by these windmills that safeguarded two-thirds of the country from sinking and the threat of man-made fish and turtles.

In the twentieth century, the old windmills, which relied on wind power, were once dimmed and almost forgotten by the development of steam, internal combustion, and turbine engines.

However, because the windmill uses natural wind power without the risk of pollution or depletion, it has not only been used by the Dutch people to this day but has also become one of the new sources of energy that fascinates people today.

The Dutch use the wind to generate power and use it as a tool for grinding grain, tobacco, oil, felt and paper. The Dutch windmills were first introduced in Germany and were initially used only for grinding flour and the like. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Netherlands was at the forefront of world commerce, with various raw materials being transported from various waterways to the windmills for processing (wood from the Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, hemp and flaxseed from Germany, cinnamon and pepper from India and South-East Asia).

The largest Dutch windmills are several stories high, with wings up to 20 metres long; some, made from whole blocks of large crushed wood. There are many mills, sawmills and paper mills for windmills in the suburbs of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

As the Dutch people carried out large-scale projects to create land around the sea, windmills played a huge role in the project.