Stories from Deli

Landgoed Duin & Kruidberg is a castle  in Santpoort , North Holland . 

Dutch King Willem III bought the Kruidberg Estate in 1682 as a hunting retreat.

In 1895, the castle was bought by Jacob Theodore Cremer, the Deli tobacco magnate. He was the administrator of Deli Maatschappij, the largest tobacco company in Deli. Cremer became the minister of colony 1897 – 1901 He later became the president of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, later became ABN AMRO.

Cremer has earnerd so much money from tobacco using cheap coolies that he built the largest residence in the Netherlands. http://castleandpalacehotels.com/countries/netherlands/netherlands_regions/north_holland/duin_kruidberg.html