BERENSCHOT'S WATERMILL

Berenschot's Watermolen is a watermill with underlay wheel, a flour mill on the Boven Slinge. A water mill is a mill that converts the flow or fall of water, for example into a stream or a river, by means of a water wheel into rotational energy, which can be usefully used for grinding grain or pressing oil. When water wheels go down, the water under the wheel flows through a groove. The groove is a pipe adapted to the wheel. It prevents water from flowing under and sideways along the blades, without driving them.
Berenschot's Watermill was built in 1652 as part of the havezate Plekenpol and was rebuilt in 1749. When G.W. Berenschot bought the water grist mill in 1911, the mill got its current name. After a major flood in 1960, the mill was out of use until 1984. From that year a major restoration started and between 1988 and 1991 part of the building was converted into a restaurant.
In 2015, the owners renovated the inside and outside of the watermill and replaced the worn oak water wheel with a tropical hardwood wheel.

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