De Windlust

English translation

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Description

Introduction

WINDMILL "Windlust", a tail-winded mill with an upper rotating cap comprising a shell from 1872 and an interior and milling machinery reconstructed in the years 1980-1993. The mill is situated within an unspoilt biotope in the Roevenderschans south of Nederweert. The mill was built as a grain and oil mill by millwright Jan Hubert Adriaens from Weert. Until 1886 the mill was jointly owned by the aforementioned millwright, the miller Jacobus Breukers and the farmer Martinus Breukers. From around 1915 the mill was fitted with an auxiliary drive, of which the engine room is still present. Initially this was a petrol engine, from 1921 a suction gas engine. In 1944 the mill was destroyed with the exception of the shell. The wooden floors, the roof structure, the machinery and the tail work are reconstructions from 1980-1993.

Description

WINDMILL of the tail-winded type with a five-storey conical brick shell and a wooden upper rotating cap. On the north side of the mill embankment is an engine house built in 1910-1925. The earthen embankment contains an entrance on the east with brickwork, rectangular front in which above the gate is a gable stone re-laid around 1981 with the date 1872. The entrance has double wooden doors painted with an hourglass motif. On either side run retaining walls finished with wattle work. On the mound around the mill several anchor posts to which the tail is anchored. The one-storey northern extension built in brickwork is flat-roofed and has several rectangular wall openings in the north facade with renewed infills. Along the west facade of the extension a stone external staircase to the embankment. The straight mill shell has windows and door openings at the level of the various storeys closed with a slight segmental arch form. These are filled with new wooden windows and doors. The window frames have glazing bars and the doors are clamped. The wooden rotating roof structure rests on an English rotating cap. The roof has a vane cross with steel, Old Dutch raked sails. The roof has asphalt covering. The INTERIOR of the mill is reconstructed according to a model customary for the building period and region. The original space in the embankment has four sparing arches which on the east and north provide access to entrances with barrel vaults, respectively to the outside and to the engine house. The northern vault was re-laid during restoration. The floor of the central space has a paving in which three round hard stone rollers are incorporated that were part of a roller mill of an oil mill. The milling floor, stone floor and louse floor are provided with new wooden flooring, here is located the new wooden machinery and a pair of artificial stone. The cast iron shaft of the machinery is a secondhand exemplar of manufacture Wed. A. Sterkman & Zn., The Hague (1861).

Valuation

WINDMILL 'Windlust' at Roeven is of cultural-historical value and of general importance on account of the significance connected with a technical and socio-economic development. The mill possesses typological value through the presence of an attached engine house by which the mill is illustrative of the development history towards the motor-milling period. The mill has architectural-historical value as a good example of a mill type customary in the region, with an authentic, well-preserved embankment and shell. The mill has ensemble values on account of its situation in an almost unspoilt biotope in the countryside of Nederweert south of the Zuid-Willemsvaart. Here the mill plays an important role in determining the townscape as a historical, functional and marking vertical element in the landscape.