Windlust is a smock mill

Smock mill

The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind...

 in Burum, Friesland

Friesland

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, Netherlands

Netherlands

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 which has been restored to working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument

Rijksmonument

A rijksmonument is a National Heritage Site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.-History and criteria:...

, number 23744.

History

A windmill was recorded at Burum in 1578. The next mention of a mill at Burum was in 1711. This mill burnt down on 12 October 1785. In 1787 a new mill was built to replace it. Reinder Durks Hamming was the owner-miller from 1811 to 1832 and Harmannus Habbema was the owner-miller from c1860 until his death in 1881. Eelke de Kok of Buitenpost

Buitenpost

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 took the mill in 1888, working it until 1905 when his nephew Thijs Berends took over. In 1941 the mill was taken by J Bremer.

The mill was restored in 1946, 1957, 1969 and 1975. In 1997, the mill was sold by the Bremers to the Gemeente Kollummerland. A further restoration was completed in 2000, the mill being officially reopened on 6 May - Nationale Molendag

National Mills Day

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. The mill was completely rethatched in 2007.

Description

Windlust is what the Dutch describe as a "stellingmolen" . It is a three storey smock mill with a stage on a three storey base. The base is wooden, on a low brick foundation. The stage is at third floor level, 6.1 metre above ground level. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The four Patent sails, which have a span of 21 metre, are carried in a cast iron windshaft which was cast by Prins van Oranje, Den Haag in 1892. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel which has 67 cogs. This drives the wallower (34 cogs) at the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft, the great spur wheel (103 cogs) drives a pair of 1.4 metre diameter French Burr millstones via a lantern pinion stone nut with 27 staves. A second pair of 1.4 metre diameter French Burr millstones are driven via a lantern pinion stone nut with 31 staves. The millstones used for producing pearl barley are driven by lantern pinion stone nuts with 20 and 21 staves respectively.

Millers

• Reinder Durks Hamming (1811-32)
• Hermanus Habbema (c1860-81)
• Eelke de Kok (1888-1905)
• Thijs Berends (1905-41)
• J Bremer (1941- )

Reference for above:-

Public access

De Heimertermole is open to the public when the mill is working, or by appointment.