In 1926
The lower mill H of the Zevenhoven polder on the Ringdijk, built in 1810, disappears. What remains of it still stands and is in use as a house.
Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.
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Around 1873
The wind-driven drainage mills disappear one by one; steam pumping stations elsewhere take over their work.
Not all the mills go this early: the lower mill H of the Zevenhoven polder on the Ringdijk, built in 1810, stands until 1926.
A mill near Nieuwveen, from an album of 1851–1891 — the years in which the water mills were being cleared away. View larger → In 1799/1800
The corn mill De Fortuijn is put up on what is now the Uiterbuurtweg.
A corn mill in Nieuwveen, from a photograph album. Whether this is “De Fortuijn”, raised in the entry beside it, the source does not say. View larger → In the year 1800
Draining of the peat lakes around Nieuwveen begins. Seven windmills set to work pumping the water out into the Amstel.
“A new drawing towards the drainage of the peat-dug lands”, 1742. The plan to push the water back is nearly sixty years older than the drainage itself. View larger → In 1810
The drainage is completed.
The Zevenhoven polder is drained by eight vijzelmolens, Archimedes-screw mills, set up in four "gangs" of two mills each, lifting the water in two stages. The original document speaks of seven mills; the difference probably lies in what exactly was counted as Nieuwveen.
The polder lies deep – the water level is 5.90 metres below NAP, the Dutch ordnance datum – and suffers badly from seepage, which makes daily pumping necessary and keeps it so.
From 1823 to 1825
The river Aar is substantially improved and the Aarkanaal dug. The old bridge, the Duivelsbrug (Devil's Bridge), gives way to a wooden double-leaf drawbridge that comes to be called the Kattenbrug.
The Kattenbrug over the Aarkanaal. The canal is dug in the entry beside this; the bridge still crosses it. View larger → From 1823 to 1825
The Duivelssluis, the lock in the Aar beside the Duivelsbrug, falls out of use. A new complex of locks at the Tolhuis in Leimuiden takes its place.