De Scheldemolen is a ground sailor in Doel (Beveren) in Belgium. The mill is a round stone ground sailor from 1614, making it one of the oldest surviving round stone mills in the province. He does not stand up, but in the dike that protects the land against the water of the Scheldt. This dike was built in 1614.

The Scheldemolen was in operation until 1927. After that it had various functions and now (2010) it houses a restaurant. Due to the accompanying extension, the mill can no longer turn and has only been restored externally. It has been a monument since 1946, which does not alter the fact that its existence is threatened. With the expansion of the port of Antwerp, the town of Doel has to give way. There is talk of preserving three monuments in the place, of which the Scheldemolen is one.

Source: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheldemolen

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JakobusPilger

February 29, 2024

Nowadays they are hardly in use in their original function, but are merely technical-historical monuments of a long tradition of craftsmanship: solely using the power of the wind as driving energy, the heavy millstones inside were moved and, for example, grains of grain were ground into flour (so-called grain mills ) or the oil is pressed from (e.g. olive) fruits (so-called oil mills). Occasionally - more on the Dutch coast, but also here at this "polder mill" in the former peat mining area - the function of the windmill was completely different: it pumped water to a higher level and thus served for drainage.
These old windmills are the best proof that people centuries ago - long before the discovery of electricity and the resulting inventions - were clever enough to harness the power of the elements for their own purposes .

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