History
The Adriaan was for a part renovated, but on April 23, 1932 flames came out of the windmill. After 8 minutes the firemen were present. The windmill was one big fire. It was impossible to save it. The fire men were not able to put out the fire. They never found out the cause of the fire.

Rebuilding
On Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at the beginning of the day, there was no windmill on the border of the river Spaarne. But just a few hours later they began to rebuild the proud, 28 meters high mill at the beginning of the Papentorenvest. The new Adriaan was within just a few hours again the beautiful building on a stone substruction, at the same spot as where the original windmill stood. The view of the the center of Haarlem was finally complete again.
It almost went wrong with putting the top of the windmill on its place. But luckily it went right and so the builders and sponsors could drink an original Adriaan beer to celebrate the rebuilding.

Targets of the Mills.
The Adriaan was till the year 1820 an industrial mill. In the year 1820 the mill was sold to a tabacco-merchant for only 1,650 Dutch guilders. Till the year 1865 it was a snuff mill. Then, till the fire, it was a corn mill.
In 1925 it was bought by the association of the Dutch Windmills (for 12,100 Dutch guilders).
Before the year 1600 mills were mainly used for grinding corn and for pumping away the water out of the polders. However, because of the increased economy and the industrial revolution, mills are nowadays used for several purposes. For instance for brewing beer, for sawing or grinding of paint.

End
We liked it very much to work on this project about the Adriaan, because now we know more about the history of Haarlem and particularry De Adriaan. Click here to visit The Adriaan website.

Highlights from Interview with Leny van Schaik
(She is choirmaster of several choirs in Holland, and a well known Haarlem citizen).

1. What do you know about De Adriaan?
I know it caught fire and that people wanted to have it rebuilt and they did their best to rebuild the mill on the same spot as the old one.

2 What would you do if someone put the mill on fire?
I would not like that at all, if someone would do such a cruelty, but I cannot prevent such things

3 Do you think De Adriaan is a real part of Haarlem and it always should be that way?
Yes, and I like it very much that we have this beautiful monument again here in Haarlem

4 Do you agree that people rebuilt the Adriaan?
Yes, I am very happy with that, and it is good to see that many people did their very best to make this possible.

5 How did you became famous?
I sing a lot with many people in a choir and that is the way I became famous.

6 How did it start? When did you start your own choir?
Long ago I asked my friends what their opinion was about starting a choir and if they would like to join. They told me they would love that idea and so it happened.

7. Did you perfom for many people?
Yes, I performed several times for 1,600 people in a huge hall.

8 What do you do in your private life?
In my private life I like to sing and during the Summer months, I like to sit on a terrace or in a small cafe

9 What is your favorite shopping area?
I like to go to the supermarket, and then I will throw a lot of yummy things in my shopping cart.

10 What are your hobbies?
Above all singing and going to nice little cafes.

11 Do you have house pets?
Mice. I have wild mice and they walk through the kitchen and sometimes I borrow the cat of my neighbors and then we do not have mice anymore.

12 What is your favorite food?
I like to cook my own food and I like to experiment with food and I like almost all the food there is.

Written by Suzan, Samantha and Lisanne

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