De Hoop, Sleen
De Hoop, June 2006
Origin
Mill name	De Hoop
Mill location	Drostenstraat 16, 7841 BM Sleen
Coordinates	52°46′19″N 6°48′01″E / 52.77194°N 6.80028°E / 52.77194; 6.80028
Operator(s)	Sleener Molen Stichting ‘De Hoop’, owner is Gemeente Coevorden
Year built	1914
Information
Purpose	Corn mill
Type	Smock mill
Storeys	Three-storey smock
Base storeys	Three-storey base
Smock sides	Eight sides
No. of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Common sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Tailpole and winch
No. of pairs of millstones	One pair
Size of millstones	1.50 metres (4 ft 11 in)

De Hoop (English: 'The Hope') is a smock mill in Sleen, Drenthe, the Netherlands, which has been restored to working order. The mill was built in 1914 and is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 33787.^[1]

History

A mill was built here in 1850. It was a smock mill without a stage and stood until it was burnt down in 1914.^[2] To replace it, the mill known as De Gunst,^[3] also known as the Molen van Nefkens, was moved from Amersfoort, Utrecht by millwright L Reinds of Beilen.^[2] The mill was built for miller H Berends.^[3] The mill was restored between 1953 and 1956 by millwright Huberts of Coevorden. On 24 July 1956 the mill was put back to work. In 1976, millwright J D Medendorp of Zuidlaren restored the mill again.^[2] In 2010 the local authority Gemeente Coevorden became owner of the mill. Society "Sleener Molen Stichting ‘De Hoop’" was founded in 2012 to work the mill.^[4]

Description

De Hoop is what the Dutch describe as an achtkante stellingmolen. It is a three-storey smock mill with a stage on a three-storey brick base.^[1] The stage is at second-floor level, 6.30 metres (20 ft 8 in) above the ground.^[3] The smock and cap are thatched. The mill is winded by a tailpole and winch. The four Common Sails have a span of 24.62 metres (80 ft 9 in) and are carried in a cast-iron windshaft cast by Enthuizen in 1861. The windshaft also carries the brake wheel, which has 62 cogs. This drives the wallower (30 cogs) at the top of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft, the great spur wheel, which has 113 cogs, drives the 1.50-metre (4 ft 11 in)-diameter French Burr stones via a lantern pinion stone nut with 34 staves.^[1]

Millers

• H Berends (1914– )^[3]

Public access

De Hoop is open to the public whenever a blue flag is flying.^[5] The mill is also open on the Drentse Molendag, the last Saturday in August.^[6]