Windmill of Schoonhoven

Description

The watermill on the Grote Motte watercourse is already mentioned in 1596. The current building dates from the 17th century with a roof from the 19th century. The mill has not been in operation since the fifties.

It is a brick and stone mill building under a gable roof with flat tiles; Appendix to dwelling house. The water façade has a natural stone base and corners; There are layers of bacon in the side wall. The waterwheel building also has a natural stone base and is enclosed under a hipped roof with S-tiles. The roof construction of the milling room is 19th-century.

Water wheel: metal, profiles and sheet iron assembled with screws and nuts; diameter about 6 meters; steel shaft.

Sluice: Concrete (interbellum); iron-strip-reinforced, wooden lock gates with rack and pinion controls; sluice operated from grinding room. Two sluices, brick and stone, thresholds in a stepped arrangement.

Brick bridge with I-profile beams and iron railing.

Installation: Half-height grinding loft; rests on iron I-poutrellen from wall to wall. Cast-iron gears (19th century); The pivots of the bottom irons are on brick consoles, the pinions can be switched on and off by means of a tension ring, lighting system with handwheel. Two pairs of grinding stones (artificial stones) with two-stroke rhinestones and hats; Wooden stone boxes and accessories temporarily dismantled.

One Jacob's ladder (partially disassembled); wooden gallows; riveted, iron water tank; wooden grain cleaner with iron cylinder (belt drive); Shutter with iron fork wheel.

Natural stone dams, upstream and downstream.

Woelkom is provided.

Source : Protection file DB000094
Authors : De Schepper, Jo
Date : 1996

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