Horse-driven oil mill

The horse-driven oil mill has been operational again since 2004. You can now watch oil millers as they demonstrate the methods used to press oil from linseed. A "virtual horse" gives you an insight into how horse power was used to drive the mill.

The first oil miller, Teunis Krabbenborg, bought this farmhouse at a public auction in 1830. He converted it into a horse-driven oil mill. This was his principal source of income. He also ran a small farm for his own use. Farmers from the area would bring their rapeseed or linseed to the miller, who would press oil from the seeds in return for payment. This oil would then be used for lighting and for frying food. The product that remained after the extraction of the oil was made into rape cakes and used as cattle feed. Most farmers took their own oil pitchers with them to the mill. Sometimes there were more than three hundred containers, all without distinguishing marks, yet the miller could tell them apart.

Type of farmhouse
Half-timbered barn used as a place to store wagons. It was later converted into a horse-driven oil mill with separate living area.