List of tallest windmills

This list of tallest windmills lists the tallest classic windmills in the world, both operating and remaining ones. Modern wind turbines are excluded.

Mill	place	country	Cap height [m] / bottoms	Type	Built	Remarks	image
De Nolet	Schiedam	Netherlands	42.5 / 10	Tower windmill gallery	2006	A classic gallery town windmill on the outside, a wind turbine on the inside
Pantaleon Mill	Cologne	Germany	39.5 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1730	On top of the stream gate (built around 1225, bricked up in 1528), burned down in 1869, demolished in 1883 with gate; then tallest windmill in the world; Southern French cone cap with codend tracking: picture (1750) drawing from 1837
De Hoop	Princenhage near Breda	Netherlands	38/10	Tower windmill gallery	1899	Mill stump since 1927; Repair planned
Press's High Mill tower windmill	Great Yarmouth	Great Britain	37/12	Tower windmill gallery	1812	Tallest windmill in England until it was demolished in 1905/1906	Picture ~ 1900
De Noord	Schiedam	Netherlands	33.5 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1807	Today restaurant on the lower three floors
De Vrijheid	Schiedam	Netherlands	33.4 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1785
De Nieuwe Palmboom	Schiedam	Netherlands	32.2 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1781	De Palmboom burned out in 1901; 1991-1993 as a museum mill De Nieuwe Palmboom rebuilt
De Walvisch	Schiedam	Netherlands	32.1 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1794
Rijn en Zon	Utrecht	Netherlands	32.0 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1913	Previous building 1745–1912; fifth tallest windmill in the Netherlands, tallest outside of South Holland
De Drie Koornbloemen	Schiedam	Netherlands	31.2 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1770	Oldest of the Schiedam mills; is the only one with an attached (three-story) miller's house. Extensively renovated in 2013/2014
De Kameel	Schiedam	Netherlands	30.8 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	2011	Previous building 1715–1865
Hager mill	Hage	Germany	30.2 / 9	Gallery Dutch	1873	In 1880, after the fire, heightened by one floor, Germany's highest windmill
Stiftsmühle	Aurich	Germany	29.95 / 9	Gallery Dutch	1858	Highest working windmill in Germany, named after the Sethestift ; Local museum
Varel windmill	Varel	Germany	29.8 / 9	Gallery Dutch	1848	"Grode Möhl"
Amanda	Kappeln	Germany	29.6 / 9	Gallery Dutch	1888	Five-story octagon on eight-sided gallery stone plinth with four-story square stone substructure
Moultoner Mill ( Moulton Windmill (en) )	Moulton (Lincs)	Great Britain	29.6 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1822	Tower height 24.4 m (80 ft; canopy height 97 ft / 100 ft with tower ball); November 21, 2011 new wing cross, April 28, 2013 first wind milled grain since 1894. Tallest windmill in the UK since 1905. 2011 mill with new wings ; Mill 2017
Leach's Mill (Leach's Mill)	Wisbech	Great Britain	29/9	Tower windmill gallery	1778	Eight wings (!); Wing cross removed after storm damage before 1920; 1955 without cap; today reduced by four floors as a residential building.
Le Tall's Mill	Lincoln	Great Britain	28.5 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1848	red brick construction without bitumen coating, white blind cap
Kalkarer mill	Kalkar	Germany	27/8	Tower windmill gallery	1770	Highest windmill on the Lower Rhine, windmillable with a restaurant
Upper Hellesdon Press Lane tower windmill	Norwich	Great Britain	26.8 / 8	Tower windmill gallery	1875	Burned out in 1913, laid down in 1920	Photo ~ 1890
St. Thomas Mill	Then after	Germany	26/6	Tower windmill	1816	Highest windmill in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, rebuilt in 1816 from a former monastery tower (14th century); 1912–1948 water tower	photo
De Distilleerketel	Delfshaven	Netherlands	25.5 / 8	Tower windmill gallery	1986	Previous building: 1727–1940
Sutton Tower Mill	Stalham	Great Britain	24.5 / 9	Tower windmill gallery	1789	Tower height 20.6 m (67.5 ft); Wing cross removed	Suttonmühle around 1920
Eye Green Tower Mill	Eye Green	Great Britain	21/8	Tower windmill gallery	1821	Eight wings (!); Loss of three wings in 1920 after storm, in 1931 with four wings; 1950 after storm damage and wood rot without wings; today reduced to three floors as a residential building.	Photos ; Image from 1906

literature

Albert Betz: Wind energy and its use by windmills. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1926; Reprint: Ökobuch Staufen, ISBN 3-922964-11-7
Friedrich Kettenbach: The miller and mill builder. Practical manual for millers, mill builders and technical educational institutions, Vol. 1 and 2, Leipzig 1907/1908
Rudolf Sacher: manual of the miller and mill builder. Leipzig 1921. 2nd edition, ibid. 1924
Werner Schnelle: Mill construction: water wheels and windmills - preserve and preserve. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00678-2
Ernst Seidl: Lexicon of building types . Reclam, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-010572-6