Hunnecummer Mill

The mill was built in 1882 by order of Maria Ludovica Boy from Amstenrade, married out of community of property with the innkeeper Hendrik van Soest. For the building they bought in 1880 a parcel of arable land 'On the Nutherweg' Mary Elizabeth Frijns, a farmer in Jabeek.
In 1882 the mill was, who was inaugurated on January 28 by a not destroyed unnamed unforeseen event and rebuilt. Strange!

The owners then alternated rapidly.

In 1933 took place an unprecedented drama: on Sunday June 25 Wevers was on his way home after a church service stung by J. Jansen with a knife and then shot in the abdomen. His wife, startled by the sudden noise, witnessed the murder, tried to flee in the mill but was there stabbed by the haunting offender. She died on the grinding floor.
The perpetrator then tried to stabbing the mill on fire but failed: the beginning of the fire was extinguished. Miller Weavers died two days later from his injuries.
Cause of this double murder was a conflict: Jansen had recently moved from Nuth to Houthem and was stored at Weavers some furniture and about the men have apparently been disagreement.

In the same year the mill was sold. The new owners left the exterior wooden rod, which was in poor condition, replaced by an iron rod from the standard mill Molendries in Heroes of the Gebr. Verlinden. At the bottom of the mill once stood an electric chair as auxiliary pumping station.
The mill was leased.

The house, which stands on the northeast side of the mill, was built during the war years 1943-1944.

The pumping station began to run in the fifties. The grinding seat, which was at the bottom of the mill, in the meantime been replaced by an electric hammer mill. The state of the windmill started to be bad.
In the years 1956-1957 followed by a restoration. These included the mostly fled, tail and hood. The wings were streamlined according to the Van Bussel system and air flaps. The mill was repainted, had four new sails and became again a jewel for the area. Sometimes there was still present with the stone-ground coupling.
In 1971, the mill fell into disrepair. In 1993/94 followed a thorough restoration by the firm. Adriaens, inter alia, the rods were replaced (and were again feature traditional Dutch rig). Since then, to see the mill running again regularly taking also milled.