The International Wind- and Watermill Museum, at Gifhorn in the German state of Lower Saxony, is the only one of its kind in Europe. On the museum's open-air site, which covers an area of around 16 he
View across the millpond to the museum site
Exhibition hall with mill models
The Dorfplatz with its baker's ducking stool (Bäckertaufe)
The Sanssouci mill and mill tree
Ise (river)
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The Ise is a 43 km long, almost natural river of East Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It crosses the district of Gifhorn from north to south and discharges into the Aller at Gifhorn itself.
International Wind- and Watermill Museum
…ponds created, as well as a 5 hectare mill lake. The lake also acts as a retention basin to prevent flooding to and to regulate the flow of the river Ise. The first structures to be built were the exhibition hall and three mills (The Kellerholländer, the post mill (Bockwindmühle) and the Tyrolean watermill…
Boats for hire on the Ise by the B 188 by Jägerhof just before its confluence with the Aller near Gifhorn
The Ise near Gifhorn, seen from a boat
Water mill on the Ise at Wahrenholz
The Ise near Neudorf-Platendorf