- Name: Dorpsmolen/mill of Servaes
Position: Pastorijstraat 17 Boortmeerbeek Owner: Private, in long lease to the municipality Boortmeerbeek construction year: beginning 17° centuries/1736 Type: Turbine water mill Function: Corn mill Characteristics: 4 deepenings, L-form with the miller house Wheel: Francis turbine Interior: Still whole present Condition: Out of use; restoration started but stopped Miller: None Visiting hours: Not accessible
The water mill and the miller house (from 1404), along the mill creek, lie camouflaged in the rural center and was protected as a monument and rural sight on 14 June 1991. This mill Servaes is a witness of several generations family old-fashioned activity. Plans to make the mill again capable to grind could not yet be brought to reality. The heemkring (study of history of local area and its folklore) Ravensteyn is now located there.
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