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Hi! I looked it up in a local history book. In 1186 the little village Loosduinen was formed, It included a abbey, houses for nuns, a brewhouse !! (guess they liked beer already then!) a farm , a bakery and a mill! This "abbeymill" was pulled down in 1569.The inhabitants complained to Prince Maurits that they had to travel with their grain.. So in 1595 a new mill was built in the same place, called the "Mauritsmill".. The top came down in a heavy storm in 1720. The top was rebuilt and they called the new mill "the Korenaer".. In 1925 the mill was bought by the government from the Hague.( Loosduinen was annexationed by the big city by then) and this is funny; the city bought also the "wind rights" which means you are not able to build a high building near the mill. To get government subsidy for being a monument, it has to function for at least 52 days a year. talk about bureaucracy!!! something else; in the hague there used to be 36 mills, for grain,water, (gun)powder, groats or barley, paper, malt and snuff. Now we have a lot off modern windmills along the coast, for energy. Some people call it "horizon pollution" because it's a few miles long line of iron objects.. hope I made you wiser than you were before ;-)Mar
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