De Hogebeintumermolen is a smock mill in Hogebeintum, Friesland

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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

Rijksmonument

A rijksmonument is a National Heritage Site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.-History and criteria:...

, number 15629.

History

A mill stood on this site in 1830. De Hogebeintumermolen was built in 1860. It drained part of the De Mear polder

Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually-operated devices...

. 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. De Hogebeintumermolen was in regular use until 1973. The mill was sold to Stichting De Fryske Mole (Frisian Mills Society) 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

De Hogebeintumermolen 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 thatched. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of 15.7 metre. The sails are carried on a cast iron windshaft, which was cast by Prins van Oranje, Den Haag. 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 420 millimetre diameter. The screw is 1.22 metre diameter and 3.8 metre long. It is inclined at 19½°. Each revolution of the screw lifts 773 litres (170 imp gal) of water.