Molen De David

For centuries, small industrial mills were used at small businesses in the Netherlands, they silently disappeared. Saw mill De David drove a band saw and a grinding stone in Thesinge, was not demolished, but stored. We want to restore De David and reinstall it in the Groningen Openluchtmuseum Het Hoogeland in Warffum in the state it was in around 1900, complete with selvage and a lower square with band saw and grindstone. Around 1890, this little mill was built by Groningen millwrights Christiaan Bremer and Klaas Kremer from Thesinge to try out self-swinging. After the introduction of this successful cradle system, on many mills in the north of the Netherlands, this little mill was converted into a sawmill in 1894 and after the installation of electricity, it came out of use in 1934. Mill builder Bremer did realise that the little mill was unique and stored it in Adorp. After it stood on the Verhildersum estate in the 1980s, but was damaged there in a storm, it eventually ended up with Piet Groot in Winsum. The David can be seen -unrestored- in Warffum, at its future location.