The Hegebeintumer Mûne ( nl, Hogebeintumermolen) is a

smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type ...

Hegebeintum Hegebeintum ( nl, Hogebeintum) is a small village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 90 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the Ferwerderadiel municipality. Hegebei ...

Friesland Friesland (, ; official fry, Fryslân ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of ...

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which was built in 1860. The mill has been restored to working order. It is listed as a

Rijksmonument A rijksmonument (, ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. At the end of February 2015, the Netherlands ...

, number 15629.

History

A mill stood on this site in 1830. The ''Hegebeintumer'' ''Mûne'' was built in 1860. It drained part of the De Mear

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. On 8 May 1969, the local water board put forward a plan to mechanise the mill because nobody could be found to work it. Permission was reluctantly granted by the Provincial Mills Commission. The ''Hegebeintumer Mûne'' was in regular use until 1973. The mill was sold to

Stichting De Fryske Mole The Stichting De Fryske Mole ( en, Frisian Mills Foundation) is a foundation for the preservation of windmills in the Dutch province Friesland, owning 42 of the 124 windmills in Friesland and closely co-operating with the Gild Fryske Mounders with ...

( en, Frisian Mills Foundation) on 4 May 1976 and restored in 1977. In 2006, the mill was officially listed as being held in reserve for use in an emergency.

Description

The ''Hegebeintumer Mûne'' is what the Dutch describe as an ''grondzeiler''. It is a two-storey smock mill on a single-storey base. There is no stage, the sails reaching almost to the ground. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The smock and cap are

thatch Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...

ed. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of . The sails are carried on a cast-iron ''windshaft'', which was cast by Prins van Oranje,

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. The ''windshaft'' also carries the ''brake wheel'' which has 47 cogs. This drives the ''wallower'' (26 cogs) at the top of the ''upright shaft''. At the bottom of the ''upright shaft'', the ''crown wheel'', which has 30 cogs drives a gearwheel with 28 cogs on the axle of the Archimedes' screw. The axle of the Archimedes' screw is diameter. The screw is diameter and long. It is inclined at 19½°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water.

Public access

The ''Hegebeintumer Mûne'' is open by appointment.

References

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