Krieke is a hollow post mill in Aldeboarn

Aldeboarn

Aldeboarn is a small village in Boarnsterhim in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has around 1480 citizens.-External links:*...

, Friesland

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

, which has been conserved. There are plans to move it to a new location and restore it to working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument

Rijksmonument

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, number 35972.

History

The earliest record of a mill on this site was on a map published by W Eekhorn in 1849. The 1832 built Poldermolen Krieke was moved to this position.. The date of this removal is unknown, but possibly c1896.

The mill is recorded as having been restored in 1960 and again in 1976. In 1995, it was reported that a new restoration was being planned. As of October 2009, the Stichting Molens de Lege Midden plan to move the mill to It Eilân in the Gemeente Smallingerland

Smallingerland

Smallingerland is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.-Population centres:Boornbergum, De Tike, De Veenhoop, De Wilgen, Drachten , Drachtstercompagnie, Goëngahuizen, Houtigehage, Kortehemmen, Nijega, Opeinde, Oudega, Rottevalle and Smalle Ee.-History:The name...

where it will be restored to working order.

Description

Krieke is what the Dutch describe as a "spinnenkopmolen". It is a hollow post mill with a single storey square roundhouse. The roundhouse is boarded with sheet material and the body of the mill is covered with weatherboards. These are horizontal on the roof and vertical on the body. The mill is winded by a winch. The four Common sails had a span of 15 metre. The sails had the greatest span of any on a spinnenkopmolen in Friesland. They were carried in a cast iron windshaft. The mill formerly drove an Archimedes screw.