Windmühle Hittfeld, Smock mill in Hittfeld, Germany.

Windmühle Hittfeld is an earth-bound Dutch windmill (Erdholländer) without a gallery, built in 1875 at the southern edge of Hittfeld in Seevetal, Lower Saxony. Its dark, tapering tower carries a wind-rotated cap with four slatted wooden sails; small rectangular windows sit below the cap. The mill is a protected monument and the only surviving windmill in Seevetal.

The mill was built in 1875 to grind grain for the surrounding farming area. A storm in 1954 left it badly damaged, and it took until 1957 for restoration work to bring it back into working order.

The mill is a stop on the Niedersächsische Mühlenstraße, the Lower Saxon Mill Road, a route linking historic mills across the region. It is also a favourite subject for photographers: images of it appeared on the cover of the Heimatverein Hittfeld's birthday calendar Das historische Hittfeld and on the February, August and December pages of the 2019 calendar Windmühlen in Seevetal. A discotheque of the same name stands next to it.

Opening times are not fixed, so it is worth getting in touch with the local support association before making the trip. The mill is in a rural setting and easiest to reach on foot, so comfortable walking shoes are a good idea.

The Voss family has looked after this mill since 1899, passing responsibility from one generation to the next and keeping the original mechanical parts intact throughout. This kind of long private care over so many generations is rare for an industrial monument.