The tour started on Sunday June 10th after breakfast and took the particpants in 4 days to the wonderful mills of Belgian Flanders.   The emphasis was on both originality and successful restoration and will include aspects of the typical Flemish heritage of many centuries. See appendix 2 for a summary.   The tour ended on Wednesday afternoon June 13th, late afternoon.   Schedule: (still subject to alteration) Sunday      June 10th (tour to start after breakfast) world's tallest windmill (under reconstruction) at Princen-hage; post mill at Zundert; border crossing; water-powered oil mill; chain-driven cap winder; flour-producing tower mill with a collection of steam engines (all in the province of Antwerp); hotel in Antwerp   Monday      June 11th two cap winders; a very old watermill; oil mill originally horse-driven; combined flour and oil smock mill; post mill with two pairs of stones; water-powered oil and corn mill; post mill operated by one of the area's last professional millers and millwrights (all in the province of Antwerp); hotel in Antwerp   Tuesday     June 12th (provinces of East and West Flanders) three tower mills in working order (one is octagonal); post mill on a tall roundhouse with a reefing stage; three cap winders (one with patent sails); small flax scutching hollow post mill; working tide mill (tide permitting!); hotel in Gent   Wednesday June 13th watermill with gearing in a typical brick-walled pit; idyllically situated overshot watermill; another post mill; last remaining watermill for paper production (museum) in Flanders; drop-off at Brussels-Midi railway station; border crossing; drop-offs at Amsterdam Schiphol airport (or near-by hotel) and hotel Mooi Veluwe at Putten

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Last update: April 29th, 2012

Gerald Bost made some nice videos during the Symposium. Please share with us the wonderful impressions from the pre-tour of Bornhom and the Excursion to wind- and watermills in Denmark:

Intro: http://youtu.be/l9QZCRux6lY

Part1: http://youtu.be/qiTdrI1l3gA

Part2: http://youtu.be/FX6uDgfRNCY

Part3: http://youtu.be/oK3ofUaHGEw

Part4: http://youtu.be/de8bFUGwaGI

Part5: http://youtu.be/po4i0dWSnHI

Part6: http://youtu.be/G7Hwtu533ms

Part7: http://youtu.be/9xl8D33wnUQ

Part8: http://youtu.be/tOb0n-qoaZ0

Part9: http://youtu.be/pLjqZbg7-vc

Part10: http://youtu.be/Y3QeD7aSFUc

Eddy De Saedeleer made many pictures. Have a look at: http://tims.windmolens.be

All photographs and illustrations by Leo van der Drift and Diederik Wijnmalen, unless stated otherwise.

Last update: April 29th, 2012

The Symposium Venue

The Symposium venue was at the excellent Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre, which is situated in the town centre of Aalborg, 5 minutes walk from the railway station (direct connection from Copenhagen Airport and Copenhagen main station every hour) and 7 km from Aalborg Airport (8 minutes by taxi). For further information please see: http://uk.akkc.dk/meetings-congress/presentation-of-centre. We will be accommodated in the Quality Hotel Aalborg, which is integral with the congress centre: http://quality-hotel-aalborg.h-rez.com. Aalborg is an industrial and university city in Northern Jutland. Its population, as of 2010, is 197,426, making it the fourth largest city in the country.

The last two nights we stayed at Christiansminde in Svendborg on Fyn: http://www.christiansminde.dk/.

Formal registration for Symposium took place on Saturday 3^rd September, 2011 (1 – 6 p.m.) in the hotel lobby.

The TIMS general meeting was held at Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre on 7^th September, at 2 p.m.

TIMS  Symposia on Molinology

The 12 TIMS Symposium was held in the Netherlands from the 2nd till the 10th of June 2007

 

 

 

 

Pre-Tour "Highlights of Holland"

 

Symposium Programme & Schedule

 

Symposium Photographs

 

Post-Tour "Mill wonders in Flanders"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-Symposium Tour: “Bornholm, Mill Paradise”

A pre-Symposium tour was offered to Bornholm and Skåne. Bornholm is an island situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It is the only rocky island in Denmark, and often referred to as the “Sunshine Island” because it is one of the locations in Denmark with the most recorded hours of sunshine annually. This small island is also a mill paradise with 3 watermills, 3 post mills and 11 smock mills (in Denmark called “Dutch mills”). One of the post mills is the oldest windmill in Denmark, built in 1629. From there we continued through Skåne (southern Sweden), where 3 interesting windmills wre visited, and we reached Aalborg the 3^rd September in time for the Symposium. The fee for the pre tour was EUR 600 including accommodation, transport by coach, bridge toll and ferries, entrance fees, 3 meals a day (except for lunch on 3 September).

30^th August – 3^rd September

Accommodation at hotel Ryttergården, Rønne.