 The mill was built as a tower mill and its sails have a span of .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.