Le comte mill or 'molin do mitan' - Crupet

This building housed a mill for 600 years , commonly called "the mill of Crupet".

The building in which the millstones were located was converted into a residence in the middle of the 20th century. The only part of this building that still refers to the 18th century is a window with a sash window on the first floor . The mill was supplied with water in 1810 by a fairly short mill stream that ran diagonally into the Crupet. It was replaced between 1810 and 1831 by a longer mill stream , parallel to the current street. The distance traveled is still vaguely visible in the municipal meadow to the east of the building.

Some remains of the blue limestone slide that received the water are the main remains on the banks of the Crupet. The drainage channel and the drainage channel have disappeared under the access road to the courtyard. The house opposite the mill on the other bank of the stream may have served as a miller's house , as the mill is known not to have owned one in 1686. Indeed, some parts of the sandstone masonry certainly refer to that period, such as two doors with full arches with chamfered posts finished with extensions.

It should be especially mentioned that the mill on the right bank of the Crupet was built on the territory of the Austrian Netherlands . But the presumed miller's house was under the Ancien Régime on the territory of Liège . The village was indeed territory belonging to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, forming an enclave in the County of Namur; the stream served as a boundary between the two lordships.

willem vandenameele