Huizermolen, Arnhem

The Huizermolen was built c.1665 at Huizen, North Holland. It had a single storey roundhouse there. A beam in the mill bore the date 1758. The mill was dismantled in 1916 and re-erected at the Netherlands Open Air Museum, Arnhem in 1919.[1] It was one of the first buildings to be re-erected at the museum.[2] The mill had a roundhouse at this time.[3] In 1949, the mill was repaired using parts from a mill at Mussel, Groningen that had been demolished in 1943.[1] The trestle from that mill was installed, but the mill was not then in working order.[2] At this restoration, the roundhouse was removed.[3]

The mill was restored in 1975-76 by millwright De Ruiter of Elspeet, Gelderland. This amounted to a complete rebuild of the mill, with only the trestle being retained from the old mill. A new wooden windshaft and sails were fitted. The mill was in need of a new windshaft and sails in 2011. Restoration began in March 2012. The restored mill was set to work on 26 January 2013.

Huizermolen is what the Dutch describe as a "Standerdmolen". It is an open trestle post mill. The mill is winded by tailpole and winch. The sails are Common sails. They have a span of 22.00 metres (72 ft 2 in). The sails are carried on a wooden windshaft. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel which has 68 teeth. This drives a lantern pinion stone nut which has 14 staves and drives a pair of 1.50 metres (4 ft 11 in) Cullen millstones, the brake wheel from the mill at Mussel being retained.[2] The tail wheel has 68 teeth.[3]

Huizermolen is open for external viewing during museum opening times. Access to the mill may generally be gained on Sundays, or whenever the mill is working.[3]

Windmills in Arnhem

• De Hoop
• De Kroon

Windmills in the Netherlands Open Air Museum

• Boktjasjker
• Het Fortuyn
• Mijn Genoegen
• Spinnenkop
• Arnhem post mill (1946)
• Arnhem post mill (1989)
• Arnhem smock mill (1960)

• Openluchtmuseum webpage about the mill (in Dutch)