Molenmuseum De Eendragt

Om museet

As early as around 1500, Anjum had a horse-powered groats mill. Around the middle of the 18th century, a wooden windmill with a stage was built in its place, operated from 1839 for generations by the Turkstra family of millers. On May 24, 1889, lightning struck during a thunderstorm, and the mill burned to the ground.

That same year, miller Doeke Turkstra had a new octagonal stage mill built for grinding grain and hulling barley, using parts of demolished mills from Leeuwarden; this is probably also where the name “De Eendragt” (unity) comes from. With a stage nine meters high, six floors and a sail span of around 22 meters, it is the tallest mill in the former Dongeradeel. Later a 40-horsepower Kromhout hot-bulb engine was added, which was used for milling until the 1960s.

In 1967 the last miller sold the dilapidated mill to the then municipality of Oostdongeradeel, which had it restored in 1970–1972. Afterward a tourist office moved in downstairs, and on the empty floors a mill museum gradually took shape with display cases and donated mill models. Today the mill belongs to the Stichting Monumentenbehoud Noardeast-Fryslân; volunteer millers usually set it turning on Saturdays. In 2012 the old riveted iron stocks of the sails underwent extensive restoration.

Højdepunkter

• Walk-through mill with six floors, from the storage floor up to the cap
• Restored Kromhout engine (40 hp) from 1920 on the first floor
• Floor with numerous mill models
• Shell collection “Kunst uit Zee” and photo exhibition on Frisian mills
• View over the Lauwersmeer from the top floor

Permanente udstillinger

• Mühlentechnik und Mühlenmodelle – Across six floors, visitors can explore the mill’s grinding and hulling technology, gearing and cap; a separate floor shows models of different types of mills.
• Kunst uit Zee – Shell collection in display cases, complemented by a photo exhibition about mills in Friesland and Dongeradeel.

Ejer

Stichting Monumentenbehoud Noardeast-Fryslân (Eigentümerin der Mühle)

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Tilgængelighed

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Transport & parkering

The mill stands in the center of Anjum (Frisian: Eanjum) near the Lauwersmeer.

Service & spisesteder

• Museumsbutik

The first floor houses a tourist information point (TIP) for the Lauwersmeer region and a small shop.

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