IN DE GRUTTE MOOLE, PRINSENSTRAAT 35

The property consists of a main area and a side section, each with a top façade facing the street. Above the entrance is a beautiful façade stone with relief representation of a horse mill. The building dates from the 18th century. A Grot mill or Gruttemoole was a place where the seed grains of buckwheat and certain cereals such as barley and oats were broken into small pieces. The grutter was the man who made groats (also called gorter, grut- or gortmolenaar or buckwheat mulder). Often he was also the shopkeeper who sold them. The word grut or grutte occurs in old Dutch as grit, i.e. as something that is finely fragmented or at least small. The expressions -to beat gort- and -klein grut- are well known. In Dalfsen, the Playgroup is called "Gruthuuske". In family names such as Gorter, Gortmaker, De Grutter, De Gruyter and Grutterink, these professions have continued to live on.

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