Qualla: De Verwachting, Hollum https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: De Verwachting, Hollum https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum De Verwachting, Hollum: Introduction https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit Josjojo at Dutch Wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Rasbak at nl.wikipedia. (Original text: nl:Gebruiker:Josjojo), CC BY-SA 3.0. De Verwachting means The Expectation - which is a strange name for a windmill that didn't exist for four decades. The first mill on this spot in Hollum was built in 1840, ran on wind for a century, and was demolished in 1949 after a diesel engine had taken most of its work. The site sat empty until 1991, when an entirely different windmill was disassembled in the village of Brucht, across the country in Overijssel, trucked to Ameland, and rebuilt on the original Hollum foundation by millwrights from Tzummarum at a cost of 679,920 guilders. The new-old mill turned its sails again on November 16, 1994. The expectation, finally, was met.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/u1s0-de-verwachting-hollum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full De Verwachting, Hollum: The First Mill https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0. A miller named Hendrik Willems de Boer commissioned the original windmill in 1840 from Van der Meer, a millwright in Harlingen on the Frisian mainland. It was a stellingmolen - a Dutch type with a stage halfway up the body so the miller could reach the sails from above the surrou...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/u1s0-de-verwachting-hollum-the-first-mill.mp3 0:06 2 full De Verwachting, Hollum: A Mill from Overijssel https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the late 1980s, the missing mill had become a problem of memory. A village like Hollum is defined by its skyline - the lighthouse to the north, the church tower in the middle, and historically the silhouette of a working stellingmolen catching the western wind. The local commu...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/u1s0-de-verwachting-hollum-a-mill-from-overijssel.mp3 0:06 3 full De Verwachting, Hollum: How the Mill Works https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0. De Verwachting is a two-story smock mill on a three-story base, which means the working body sits high above the village - the stage circles the structure 5.06 meters above the ground. The smock and cap, the tapered upper portion and the rotating top, are both thatched with straw...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/u1s0-de-verwachting-hollum-how-the-mill-works.mp3 0:06 4 full De Verwachting, Hollum: The View from the Stage https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0. Standing on the stage halfway up the mill, you can see most of Hollum at once: the red-and-white pole of the Bornrif lighthouse north of the village, the broad green roof of the Hervormde Kerk, the low jumble of brick houses behind their gardens. Beyond them is dune, then beach, ...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/s/0/de-verwachting-hollum-wp/u1s0-de-verwachting-hollum-the-view-from-the-stage.mp3 0:06 5 full De Verwachting, Hollum: Visiting Hours https://qualla.com/de-verwachting-hollum/ Photo credit JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0. De Verwachting is open to the public most days of the week - not on Sundays, not on Mondays, not on Dutch public holidays. Most weeks, you can climb the wooden stairs, watch the millstones turn, and sometimes buy flour ground that morning. The mill is run by volunteers as part of...

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