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Elsbroek Mill

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Elsbroek Mill

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Location: Nieuwerkerken, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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Claudine en Robert🇧🇪🚴

April 13, 2024

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The Elsbroekmolen or Binderveldmolen is a watermill on the Melsterbeek, formerly belonging to the Binderveld domain. A mill was already mentioned at this location in 1379. The watermill is shown on the Ferraris map (1770-1778). The current brick building dates from 1910 and was renovated in 1937. The metal undershot wheel and the interior may be older and still present.

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October 10, 2024

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This watermill is located just past the border with Runkelen in Binderveld, a sub-municipality of Nieuwerkerken, on the Melsterbeek. The original watermill was built before 1379. A new one was …

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JakobusPilger

April 15, 2024

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Using the power of moving water to drive a mill wheel is an ancient invention of the human spirit of discovery, the origins of which can be traced back to times long past. Thanks to such a construction, human or animal muscle power could be easily replaced by the power of the natural elements through a watercourse - natural or artificially created - in order to grind grain into corn or press oil from fruit, for example.

There are essentially two different ways of driving watermills:

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