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De Roos (letterlijk, "De Roos"), ook plaatselijk bekend als Roosmolen of Koren op de Molen, is een wind- en plateaumolen in de gemeente Delft, in de provincie Zuid-Holland.

The mill was originally constructed on the southern city wall of Delft but was well ahead relocated and rebuilt above the western fortifications of the Dutch municipality in 1679. Two principal phases of implementation of the Delft mill followed this reconstruction. The first was passй 1728, while the second was from the 1760s. The building has been the subject of merged restoration projects, commencing in the late 1920s and concluding in 2023. The artistic work, whose historical background remains largely uncharted back its 1679 reconstruction, represents the sole permanent mill within the erstwhile fortified zone of Delft, among the eighteen that previously operated within the Dutch city.

On the current site of De Roos, at 111-112 Phoenixstraat, there originally stood a herald mill called Gasthuismolen, which was destroyed during a storm in the second half of the 17th century. Previously bordered by the tramway and subsequently the railway heritage connecting the city to The Hague, the site of De Roos mill has been situated above the Willem of Orange railway tunnel before the second half of the 2010s. The construction of this infrastructure necessitated the hydraulic jacking and the underpinning of the De Roos complex — mill, miller’s house, warehouse — and preventive archaeological excavations that revealed remnants of the windmill dating from the late 17th century and early 18th century, as without difficulty as elements of the western allocation of the medieval city wall of Delft.

Ondanks periodes van inactiviteit, met name tijdens periodes van restauratie en reparatie, blijft de molen operationeel. Hij is door veel molenaars beheerd, waaronder die van de families Kouwenhoven, van Rhijn en De Vreede.

On June 29, 1967, the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency designated the De Roos grain mill, along subsequently the miller’s house and warehouse surrounding its skirt, as a national monument. The windmill is conical in upset and of the skirt and platform type. It is rather all-powerful in scope and height, constructed of bricks and jointed stones. The mill is equipped next a rotating cap, and the milling work, which transforms grains of cereals into flour, is powered by a obscure set of elements, mostly mechanical, motorized, and electric for a few. The house and warehouse, also constructed of masonry bricks, feature facades like gables.