 The mill is a national monument (nr 39624) since 24 June 1971.The mill was built in 1811 by order of Jacobus Aerden, who took the opportunity to build a mill right after the "molendwang", a system in which local peasants were obligated to use a certain local mill, was discontinued by the French revolutionaries.The mill burned down in 1825 and was rebuilt that same year.