Cycling around the Hegeman mill

Your cycling route starts in Holten. You cycle from Okkenbroek to the village of Dijkerhoek along farmland. At junction 67 you will see De Hegeman, a scaffolding flour mill from 1730. After many years of activity and then due to decline in the twentieth century, the restoration of the beautiful mill started in 1979. The mill is currently equipped with two pairs of millstones. One couple is wind-driven, the other is powered by a Deutz engine. The rods of the mill are equipped with the old Dutch fencing with sails. Grain is regularly ground by wind power by volunteer millers. Then you drive through the vast forests of the Sallandse Heuvelrug.