Community Lens for June 14

Ted Fahrenthold of Snellville said he took this photo of a of a windmill at Kinderdijk, Netherlands a couple years back during a Viking Rhine Getaway river cruise. In the beautiful wetlands around Dordrecht, you will find the windmills of Kinderdijk, according to holland.com. Nineteen beautiful windmills, built around 1740, stand as part of a larger water management system to prevent floods. Today, they symbolize Dutch water management, and in 1997 they were declared to be UNESCO World Heritage. The windmills of Kinderdijk were built to keep the low-lying lands of the Alblasserwaard dry. Facing each other, they form an iconic Dutch scene. You can also admire many waterways, dikes, mills and sluices and discover how the Dutch have been using water to their benefit for over 1000 years.