- Position: Stenenmolenstraat 21 Ertvelde (Evergem)
- Owner: Johan Van Holle
- Construction year: 1798
- Type: Stone ground sailor
- Function: grain mill
- Situation: can mill
- Miller: Johan Van Holle,
- Visiting hours: during the summer months, with also the horse mill
- Internet source:johan.van.holle@pandora.be
For lack of documents, we cannot retrieve the original owner with certainty. It is certain anyway that Petrus-Cornelus Genbrugge owned the mill already in the French time and still in 1835, which in 1862, a partitioning happened between its children Jan, Bernard and Ferdinand Genbrugge who sold him in 1874, to Eugeen Neyt. He remained continuous since then in the same family. In 1925, he came in common possession of the children Helena, Joannes, Marie and Cyriel Neyt. After consecotive bereavements he came in 1953 entirely , in the hands of the current heir manager, Mr Cyriel Neyt, who kept until recently the mill still working. In each case he is the last residual of the mills at Ertvelde and is its silhouette as a land-mark in the landscape noticeable... (' history of Ertvelde ' by Achiel de Vos (1971), p..745) The stone wind mill with associated rosmolen (mill powered by a horse) is unique in Flanders and can still be visited in Ertvelde. The Rosmolen is used when there is no wind. The rosmolen is a small building with eight sides. The mill twists around a stand up ash by the roof and is brought in movement by a horse.
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