Oud-Alblas: Mills, Cycling and Hiking Routes
Accommodation in Oud-Alblas
History
The Kooijwijkse Molen was formerly a beacon or signal windmill. A lifting frame for a lamp can still be seen on its upper structure. Before 1866, the Kooijwijkse Molen replaced an older windmill. This older windmill had been demolished because of its poor condition.
The former signal function and the surviving feature on the upper structure therefore belong to the history of the same mill. At the same time, its present-day structure recalls the replacement building from before 1866 and the older windmill that has not survived.
De Hoop mills around 500 kilograms of wheat per week. The flour is intended for hobby bakers.
The Peilmolen was built in 1819. It was constructed on the site of a post mill that had been destroyed by fire. Until the 1950s, the Peilmolen drained the Zuidzijde drainage district. A motor pumping station was involved in this drainage. The drainage district covered 630 hectares.
The construction history of the Peilmolen therefore includes both the fire that destroyed the former post mill and the later construction of 1819. Its role in water management remained connected to the Zuidzijde drainage district and the motor pumping station until the 1950s.
The Kooijwijkse Molen drained the Noordzijde polder together with the Noordelijke Kooijwijkse Molen.
The surviving mill histories thus encompass different functions: signaling, milling wheat, and draining polders and drainage districts. The years mentioned mark different stages in this development.
Cycling and Hiking
TOP Oud-Alblas offers parking. The TOP serves as a starting point for various cycling and hiking routes.
This means that the TOP is named as a starting point for both cycling routes and hiking routes. The Molenroute Alblasserwaard complements this overview as a specific circular cycling route passing through several towns.
The Molenroute Alblasserwaard is a circular cycling route. It starts in Alblasserdam and passes through Groot-Ammers, Bleskensgraaf and Oud-Alblas. It ends back in Alblasserdam.
Culture
The Gemeentemuseum Mr Simon van Gijn is a museum. It is located in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
Steurgat is a fort in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
The Belasting & Douane Museum is a museum in the wider regional surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam is also a museum in the wider regional surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
The cultural surroundings of Oud-Alblas thus include museums, a fort and the history of the mills. The destinations mentioned are spread across the nearby and wider regional surroundings, without equating their respective geographical relationships.
Other Places
You can access other places via the page navigation: Nieuw-Lekkerland and Ottoland.
Surroundings
IJsselmonde is an island in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas. Duivelseiland is also an island in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas. Eiland van Brienenoord is another island in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
The three islands mentioned therefore form part of the geographical description of the surroundings of Oud-Alblas. Kral Bos complements this description as a park and is therefore distinct from the islands listed.
Kral Bos is a park in the surroundings of Oud-Alblas.
For the overarching travel overview: Molenwaard.
