Cassel dans les Flandres
Cassel de A à Z - Historique - Le Moulin de Cassel - Reuze papa et maman
		The Mill of Cassel A Little history... Formerly, on the Cassel Mount, there was a score of Mills. These giants were built out of wood, on pivot. Their grinding stones crushed corn and cereals. Others, equipped with rammers and blades reduced out of powder the barks (of oak) to provide the tan to the tanners. All were drove by the wind: sometimes capricious but nonpolluting energy. The Mill of the Castle Dated from XVIème. It brula, like so much of others, October 30, 1911. It was transformed - says one - into an immense visible torch from Dunkirk, Calais, Ypres and even Arras. In 1947, the Tourist office of Cassel repurchased the Mill Ruytoor d' Arnèke (59). This one was dilapidated because abandoned: the Miller had lost the life there accidentally. Become Kasteel-Meulen, it was one of the first Mills open to the public in 1949. Today, the visits are guided: one attends with grinding and sifting. Four qualities of fresh flour are produced and offered free.
The Attic with Grinding stones is equipped with 2 couples of grinding stones. One functioning with the wind; the other electrically. The Miller supplies the rye or corn hoppers of the area. The Attic with Flour It is there that the whole-wheat flour is bagged, or conveyed in a sieve to extract the sound from it. With the foot of the Mill From our flour, one kneads and charges regularly several qualities of breads from which profit the visitors... while waiting for that a rope twister with oil comes to supplement the equipment. Information Open all the year, Saturday, Sunday and festivals as well as the school holidays of 10h00 with 12h30 and 14h00 with 18h00. Guided tour on reservation for the tous.les.jours groups of the year. Splendid panorama. Celebrates Mill: July 14. Office of Tourism - Tourist office - Large Places - LP 10 - 59670 Cassel - Tel.: 03 28 40 52 55 - Fax: 03 28 40 59 17