Standing on the southern corner of the ramparts of old IJsselstein, the silhouette of Windotter Mill dating from 1732, together with those of the two churches, characterise the image of the fortified town. The mill is also a dynamic working industrial monument. Some 1000 kg per day are milled. The sails are 26 metres in diameter. In the mill, wheat is milled into whole wheat flour and flour is sieved into flour. Rye, barley, oats, spelt, maize and buckwheat are also milled there. The mill runs at least five days a week and supplies honest and traditional products to many bakers, restaurants and wholesalers. In addition, everyone is welcome in the mill store where a large assortment of mill products can be found.
This mill is one of the largest in the Netherlands and has been fully operational since its restoration in 1987. Miller Maarten Dolman, master of the traditional corn millers' guild, runs the mill together with his wife Lia and many volunteers. He is one of forty professional millers in the Netherlands, a craft that has been on the Unesco World Heritage List since 2017.
As a contemporary IJsselstein mill company, the Windotter is the oldest and most traditional company in IJsselstein.
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