Korenmolen De Lelie Etten-Leur

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Flour mill De Lelie

Mill de Lelie is owned by the Mill “De Lelie” Foundation. This foundation was founded in 1991. Its main goal at the time was to realize the reconstruction of Molen de Lelie. By organizing numerous activities, such as organizing gala evenings, symbolically selling stones and recruiting various major sponsors, the foundation managed to complete the entire restoration/reconstruction in 1998 and the Mill was put into use.

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Monument

In the autumn of 2018, Mill De Lelie was designated a municipal monument, due to the fact that the mill is the last industrial memory of the port of Leur.

Goal

The Molen De Lelie Foundation aims to keep the newly built mill at the Leurs harbor running as much as possible and to open the working mill to the public.

Educate

Training millers themselves ensures continuity. The miller's craft is on the National Inventory of Intangible Heritage and on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

History

The mill “De Lelie” was built in 1801 by a millwright from Princenhage, namely Carolus Oomen. The mill was converted into a bark mill. A few years later the mill was also converted into a flour mill. The new mill burned down in 1833. Reconstruction followed in 1834. On January 20, 1937, the mill was hit by fire again. Only the bottom meters remained.

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The foundation

In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, the Foundation Board, in collaboration with the volunteer millers associated with the mill, promotes and undertakes all kinds of activities that are related to and/or related to or that may be useful for the purpose in the broadest sense of the word. The activities take place without a profit motive or on a commercial basis.