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The Wimmenumer Mill is an indoor windmill built in 1774 with an octagonal shape. It was used to drain the 85-hectare Wimmenummer Polder, located between the lands surrounded by the Krommedijk and the formerly un diked Egmonder and Bergermeer.<\/p>\n
Drainage of the polder was probably introduced around the middle of the 16th century, around the time these lakes were drained in 1565. A map from 1574, probably reworked in 1642, shows a seesaw mill at the location of the current mill, in contrast to neighboring mills indicated as upper millers. This is confirmed by maintenance bills from 1722 and 1732. This seesaw mill was destroyed by a summer storm in 1773 and replaced by the current octagonal mill.<\/p>\n
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The mill remained in operation until 1951, when it was replaced by a small electric auger pumping station. In 1953, the vacant mill was leased by P.Th. Zwijnenberg of Amsterdam and purchased two years later. After years of being used as a summer and weekend retreat, the mill was fully restored for milling in 1967.<\/p>\n
Now the mill still serves as a vacation home, but since 1967 it has been in frequent use by its owner. There is uncertainty about the spelling of Wimmenumer or Wimmenummer (with 1 or 2 m’s at the end). According to existing spelling rules, the mill should be written as Wimmenumer mill (as well as Jelsumer, Dokkumer, etc.). But the officially established name of the polder is Wimmenummerpolder with 2 m’s.<\/p>\n
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