De Hoop, Bunschoten

De Hoop is a Dutch corn mill located at Stadsspui 15 in Bunschoten. It is an octagonal wooden mill on a concrete base. On May 29, 2009, the mill was festively inaugurated.

The construction is an initiative of the Korenmolen De Hoop Bunschoten Foundation, which wants to revive a mill of the same name built in 1899. The remainder of this mill was demolished in 1967. The idea to rebuild De Hoop dates back to 1997; it took the foundation more than ten years to realize its plans and on November 30, 2007, construction began. On November 30, 2008, the wooden octagon was placed on the concrete substructure and the cap with the cast iron upper shaft was placed on the wooden octagon. The windshaft was cast in 2008 by the manufacturer J. Geraedts from Baarlo. The topshaft is weighted at the pin side to prevent dumping. However, it is planned to move the shaft further back. The substructure, wooden octagon and cap were made by the Groot Roessink company from Voorst and the running gear by the Groot Wesseldijk company from Laren.

The windvane gear has Van Bussel noses with brake flaps. The welded, 20,5 m long rods were made in 2008 by the fabr. Groot Wesseldijk and have the numbers 96 for the inner rod and 97 for the outer rod. The mill is caught with a Flemish block catch with toggle. In the donkey there is a slide for the hinging of the catch beam, which allows a stepless adjustment of the catch beam.

The cap has an English windrow, which is operated by a windrow winch. The turnstile in the front face of the hood is removable for insertion or removal of the top shaft. This is notable because usually the weatherstile is removable.

The grinding material is sounded with a drag sloth, which lies at rest on a hook.

The long shoot, the short shoot and the tail are made of iron.

In the building next to the mill, a brasserie is located