The best-known windmills in North Rhine-Westphalia
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Lower Rhine is windmill country. The Dycker Mühle (1756) is 4 km from Neubrück, the Ehemalige Kurfürstliche Bannmühle 1 km from Jüchen, the Schriefersmühle (1747) 4 km from Wegberg, the Wingertsmühle (1600) 1 km from Wassenberg. Krefeld has the Geismühle 6 km out. In Westphalia, Piel's Mühle (1705) is 7 km from Rahden and the Klostermühle 5 km from Hamm.
Of the 161 windmills RLQuest knows in North Rhine-Westphalia, 35 have a Wikipedia article. Build dates run from 1600 at the Wingertsmühle to 1756 at Dyck, with Wegberg and Rahden in between. A mill is an easy RLQuest quest to spot and a fair walk to reach; the app checks that your route got there and fills in the flat tiles behind you.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
