D’n Alde Meule and pottery workshop De Vuurvogel
The mill base you see here was built in 1909 by Gradje de Mölder (Jacobs). He came from Heumen and lived in Milsbeek. Gradje built a total of seven windmills.
This mill was his fifth. Earlier, he built mills in Overasselt, Uden, Groesbeek and Heumen. The road now called Ovenberg was known as Molenweg until 1973. In 1923, Gradje built a new mill along the main road between Nijmegen and Venlo. You can read more about it on the information board at that mill.
Wim Jansen purchased the mill ruin in 1951. Earlier, he had founded the pottery workshop De Olde Kruyk together with his cousin Peter Linders. After their collaboration ended, Wim started a new company here: pottery workshop De Vuurvogel (Fire Bird). Wim made and fired the pottery. His brother‑in‑law, Jan Koenen, decorated it.