De Gooyer, Amsterdam

De Gooyer is a windmill built from a stone base and a wooden octagonal body. At 26.6 metres high, it is the tallest wooden mill in the Netherlands. Its blades still move, but they no longer drive grinding machinery, and the mill is not open to visitors.

Beside it stands a former municipal bathhouse from 1911, now home to Brouwerij 't IJ; the two buildings have no historical or architectural connection, and the mill does not serve the brewery. The name reaches back to around 1609, when Claes and Jan Willemsz, brothers from Gooiland, owned the mill. The present structure arrived here in 1814, rebuilt on the stone base of a watermill demolished two years earlier.

During the Second World War, shortages of electricity brought it back into use as a corn mill. A storm in 1972 destroyed its sails, which were later restored in their older Dutch form.