Mill De Put on the Galgewater in the Dutch city of Leiden is a 1987 replica of Jan Jansenzoon Put's standerd mill.
This original mill dated from 1619, after which the first mill burned down in 1640. After the wooden corn mill was then rebuilt, it had to make way for a stone standerd mill like mill De Valk in 1729. This mill, which bore the name De Coornbloem / De Korenbloem / De Korenmolen (wall mill), was demolished in 1817. Archaeologists discovered the foundations of the octagonal mill bulwark in 1982. In 1983, as part of the 25th anniversary of the Rhineland Mill Foundation, the idea of building a standerd mill on the old bastion was mooted. This idea was finally realised four years later. The mill has one grinding torque with 17er, 150 cm diameter, artificial stones.
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