At the end of the fourteenth century, one Udeman Airnt Udemanssoen is the owner and in a document from 1441, Lysbeth, the widow of Jan Dirx, is named Lu as the owner of the mill.
More than a century later, in 1545, the mill was owned by Mr Poitiers van Haren. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the mill came into the possession of the noble Prouveur family. In 1626, for example, François Prouveur, who included the quartermaster of Kempenland, leased his mill in Keersop. In 1711 a female Prouveur married Hendrick Verhoeven, and the mill passed to the Verhoeven family. The last mulder of this family, Franciscus Verhoeven, died in 1957. But by then the mill was no longer in operation.
In 1873 the mill was expanded with an oil mill, which was housed in the same building. For this, parts were used from a ros oil mill from Walik, a hamlet about 2.5 kilometers west of Keersop. In 1929 the oil mill disappeared again.
In 1938, the water board "The catchment area of the Dommel" bought the dam rights of the mill and thus put an end to the mill's functioning. The wheel was demolished. After the death of Mulder Verhoeven in 1957, the mill continued to deteriorate.
In 1977 a buyer came forward for the mill and the miller's house to start catering in it. Shortly after the departure of Frans Verhoeven's widow in 1981, the mill collapsed from misery.
The new owner received a building permit to restore the complex, but due to lack of activities, that permit was withdrawn in 1991. Another attempt followed in 2001, but the following year a fire reduced the miller's house to ashes.
In 2003, Monumentenzorg had to conclude that after the fire there was too little substance of the complex left to maintain its status as a monument. This makes the end of the Keersopper windmill seem definitive.
Source: bhic.nl
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