Fort in the Botshol (QR Stelling route)

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The fort in the Botshol is little more than a few reinforced earthen ramparts. Due to the outbreak of the First World War, it was never finished.
After the First World War, the fort still received a fort keeper's house and a mountain shed. The house is still there, but the shed is no longer.

In 1942, fort guard Reinders and his family came to live at the fort. Reinders was part of the resistance and the remote and protected place made the fort site particularly suitable for housing people in hiding.

Among other things, they were housed in the mountain shed. Weapons were hidden in the rabbit hutch. The fort moat provided sufficient fish, such as eel, pike and tench. Extra food was taken from the surrounding meadows. There was never a shortage of eggs and mutton.

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Laurien van der Vaart

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| | Public | Dutch

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De Ronde Venen

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