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According to old documents there should have been a mill at this particular spot ever since 1715. The weird thing is that on the west side of the current mill a stone is placed with the year 1787 in it. So therefore we can day for sure that this corn mill (a so called 8-K stellingmolen) was built in 1787 by Roelof Steenbergen Jr. Because of a huge fire, which started in the chimney of the house of the miller, it was rebuilt in 1834.
It's a so called Stelling molen. The dutch word "stelling" is translated into English "scaffolding". It is quite common to find a stelling-mill in villages and cities, because the mill has to extend over the roofs of the surrounding houses to catch enough wind. The height of the mill with its sails is about 35 meters. It has 4 garrets, each used for a different purpose.
De Zwaluw is one of the few corn mills still producing flour for the local bakers. Traditional miller Hans Valkenhoff still uses the same methods as his predecessors in the last century. You are welcome to pay a visit when the vanes are turning or the blue pennant is flying.
Opening hours:
Thursday: 09:00u - 12:00u
Friday: 13:00u - 17:30u
Saturday: 09:00u - 12:00u Leave a Comment
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The design of the new church was commissioned to the municipal architect Jan Carmiggelt. He was asked to design a church that could house up to 350 sittings. A huge disappointment came when the total costs of the church, its paving and the fence works were about €4.000.- higher than the budget allowed. Even with the issue of shares this huge amount would not be accounted for. The administration decided to decrease the capacity to 250 sittings and even removed the building of a vestry and catechist-room from the plan.
In March 1893 Carmiggelt showed his new design and of course the adjusted estimate. Finally the members approved the plan and a go-afead was given. The tenders were invited at the 2nd of June 1893. Leave a Comment
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To understand why this beautiful church was made, we'll explain a little bit about the Remonstrant movement in Hoogeveen. In 1879 some members of the Reformed Church wanted the preaching-engagements to be more modern and open-minded. Other members declined this proposal the hard way, leaving for the mordernists nothing else to split up. And so they did!
In 1880 they were talking about the realization of a wooden building for 600 sittings. It took the new movement over 11 years to save up €1.000.- and with this money they bought the ground at the Grote Kerkstraat. A building licence was approved in May 1892. By now the Remonstrats had a good picture on how large their support was and decided to issue shares to finance the new church. Leave a Comment
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Ever since 1835 the mill has had several different owners, the millers. The most interesting part probably was when Cornelis Thomas was the miller. This started in 1907 and by that time the city of Hoogeveen had a lot of canals and ditches. The transportation of the corn was done by boots over the water. It's maybe hard to imagine whenever you look at the mill, but the boots sialed underneath the mill. Inside the mill (so called Molengat) the sacks of corn were lifted upwards into the mill.
There used to be 7 corn mills in Hoogeveen, but because of the industrial progress the Zwaluw is the only one left. After a radical restoration the mill was re-opened at 05/08/1980. Ever since 1987 milles Hans Valkenhoff is the owner.
Opening hours:
Thursday: 09:00u - 12:00u
Friday: 13:00u - 17:30u
Saturday: 09:00u - 12:00u Leave a Comment
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Once you're on the scaffolding you're more than 10 meters high. We learned that whenever the 4 sails make one revolution, the stones that crush the corn make six revolutions. The stones are 1500 kg and have a diameter of 1,40 meter. These days the sacks of corn are delivered by a bus and they are transported all the way to the upper garret by a rope.
The mill has a beautiful store inside and you're able to buy a large variety of products made by the mill. We learned about this because our little son Sam. He's allergic to gluten and therefore is not allowed to eat oridnary bread for example. We buy special wheat at the mill and bake our own bread of it, which Sam can eat.
Opening hours:
Thursday: 09:00u - 12:00u
Friday: 13:00u - 17:30u
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As the community of Hoogeveen kept growing, the need for a larger church was equal to it. In 1776 the first expansion was realised. Weird enough there are no drawings available of that time and even up to now, nobody knows how it looked like back then. In 1801 the church had 2 major enlargements, both on the north and south side. As a reminder of this the sundial above the south entrance was placed. Finally in 1890 the vicarage was "pasted up" the east side of the church. A renovation in 1968 showed that this small building had a very bad foundation, because it suddenly collapsed.
The beautiful organ was built in 1843. During an extensive renovation in 1861 it showed that it was already decayed for the most of it and it was almost replaced entirely. The largest bell in the bell-tower is of 1680 and was taken by the Germans in the 2nd World War. They took it, because it was neede to re-melt it for bullets. Lucky enough this didn't happen and it was returned just after the war. Leave a Comment
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To us the area of Hoogeveen where the Grote Kerk (Large Church) is built, is maybe the most beautiful spot in Hoogeveen. Still building this church fell on evil days. In 1626 the community of Hoogeveen grew so fast that they decided to found a school and church. It still lasted untill 1651 before they actually started building the church, a so-called "Kruiskerk", in a shape of a Greek Cross.
In the 17th century it was very common to use the "central building" technique, which means building a church in the shape of an octagon with a dome or bell-tower situated centrally at the roof.. This also means that the church is accessible from 4 sides. Even up to 1660 the church wasn't finished, because the floor and windows were missing. In popular speech it was called "duivenhok" - pigeonhouse! Finally in 1664 the Grote Kerk was finished and had about 500 sittings. Leave a Comment
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The nave of the church is 15 meters long, has a width of 10,4 meters and a height of 8,7 meters. To the left of the staircase there is a veranda with a width of 5 meters and a length of 10,5 meters, where used to be the pipe organ made by Theodorus Faber in 1658. The administration bought this organ from the Reformed Church of Coevorden. In 1926 this organ was replaced by a new one, because of poor maintenaince.
About 50 years after the opening the movement had enough money for an expansion. In 1944 the very much wanted vestry and catechist-room were built on the north side. Leave a Comment
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Hoogeveen isn´t really known for its buzzling history and therefore lot´s of historical remainders, but at least the city has this very old sluice. Usually we say that the city of Hoogeveen has been established in 1627. That year Jonkheer Roelof van Echten and his business partners started the construction of the canal the Niwuew Grift, nowaydays known as the Hoogeveensche Vaart. This canal goes as far as from the city of Meppel till the way of Schoninghsdorf, Germany.
In old documents there is some talk about a canal called `De Wetering´. This canal was situated between the cities of Meppel and Hoogeveen. It wasn´t suitable for large ships that had to transport the peat. So in 1625 Roelof van Echten established the `Algemeen Comagnie van de 500 Morgen´, to amke the peat cutting in the area Echtener Grote Venen and transportation possible. Leave a Comment Address: Zuilwoldigerweg, HoogeveenDirections: At the western site of the city. At the crossing to Zuidwolde or Echten.
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Right now the Grote Kerk is only uses for services at Saturday and Sunday, besides that the church is closed for the public. Discussions are there at the moment whether it should make place for other buildings, because this church hasn't much artistic-value, like the richly decorated churches of Diever and Roden, both small villages near Hoogeveen. To us this discussion is unbelievable as this is maybe one of the last places in Hoogeveen where you'll find some of the old history of the city!
Due to the services it still has users-value, bot more important it has huge historical-value and cultural magnificence. Once inside the church we saw the parlour and scutcheon of Van Echten, who is one of the founders of Hoogeveen. Our opinion ---> A building with this long and stirring (building) history (1651-1804) is a pearl for the city! Leave a Comment
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on February 15, 2009
