New toilet building opened

16 September 2025

After months of construction, the new toilet building has finally been opened. The toilet building now has 3 showers, 3 toilets, 2 urinals, a changing room and a place to wash your hands, brush your teeth, shave, etc. Outside, next to the entrance to the toilet building, there is now also a place to wash dishes.

This toilet building is connected to the new space where coffee and apple pie can be enjoyed during the mill’s opening hours. There is also enough space here to enjoy this even in bad weather. From the new terrace there is a wide view over the fields and the mill can be admired in all its beauty. This reception area and the terrace will not be opened until a few weeks from now, when the floor has also been laid.

The building meets the latest sustainability requirements. The water and heating are heated with solar energy as much as possible.

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Piece of history reunited with mill

16 September 2025

When the mill was still in Leiden, this mill was, among other things, a sawmill. At that time the name of the mill was “De Haan”. Because of the connection with the sawmill, a beard (name plate of the mill) was made in Rococo style with a rooster carved in wood. When the mill was moved to ‘t Zand in 1865, the beard was left behind at the sawmill. When the sawmill was demolished, the Timmerman family (the owners of the sawmill at the time) were able to save the beard from demolition.

For a long time it was uncertain what the origin of mill “De Hoop” was. However, for a number of years it has been established with certainty that this was once mill “De Haan” from Leiden. The Timmerman family, who still had that beard in their possession, also found out and contacted Jaap Zeeman. Ultimately, this led to the beard being reunited with the mill. The official transfer took place on October 27, 2021.

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