De Prins Van Oranje, Buren

De Prins van Oranje (English: The Prince of Orange) is a tower mill in Buren, Gelderland, Netherlands which was built in 1716 and has been restored to working order.

[2] The mill gets its name De Prins van Oranje from being owned from 1716-95 by the Count of Buren, a title now held by the Dutch Monarch.

It was restored using machinery from De Reus (English: The Giant), Rotterdam, South Holland.

The mill's business, making flour for local bakeries, disappeared after 1918 and the internal machinery was removed.

This drives two pairs of 1.40 metres (4 ft 7 in) Cullen millstones via lantern pinion stone nuts with 26 staves each.

[1] De Prins van Oranje is open on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00.

Cross-section of the mill and machinery.