De Schuttel
Schotel’s longing for Esbeek remained. This led him to decide in 1923 to move a garden cottage from Rotterdam to Esbeek. It was named “De Schuttel.”
In 1922, through the director of the Kralingen gasworks, Schotel came into contact with the director’s brother, Cornelis Sissingh. Cornelis was the forester at the Landgoed de Utrecht estate. Schotel was allowed to live there for free near the fire tower. However, he sold hardly anything, so after a year he had to return to Rotterdam with his family.
Schotel’s longing for Esbeek remained. This led him to decide in 1923 to move a garden cottage from Rotterdam to Esbeek. It was named “De Schuttel.” The family spent the summer months there. The cottage was situated near the caretaker’s house of the Oranjebond van Orde, which had reclaimed the Roovertsche Heide.
In 2000, on the initiative of the Friends of Andreas Schotel Foundation and the Esbeek Local History Working Group, De Schuttel was fully restored as a lasting tribute to the work of this artist.
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