Wheat mill de Lelie - Puttershoek

This mill was built in 1836 by order of Cornelis van Holst. The rocker corn mill standing on the site was then demolished. Exceptionally, this seesaw mill purchased in 1829 by Cornelis van Holst was already replaced in 1836 by a stone mill built entirely from new materials. The family lived in the miller's house. If stones could speak, this mill would have a lot to say about luck and misfortune. A miller who went bankrupt, conversion with a steam locomotive, grinding grain for the poor, a fatal accident: the mill went through it all.

Until 1945, it ground with three pairs of stones: a blue stone for grinding wheat for the bakers, a 16er artificial grinding stone for fodder and a crushing stone for crushing horse beans and later maize. The then six bakers in Puttershoek took two to three 50-kilo bales every week, and cattle feed sales were also quite high. In 1948, Leeuwenburgh bought the already decaying mill and sold it to the municipality of Puttershoek in 1955 for just one guilder. The municipality of Puttershoek had the mill restored immediately afterwards. At that time, the stone hull was whitewashed. Later, the entire hull was sandblasted, returning the natural stone colour. The mill was restored again in 1987 and has been managed by the Stichting Molens Binnenmaas since 1992. De Lelie and can be seen turning regularly, the miller occasionally grinding some fodder for demonstration purposes.