About us

Welcome to the Chezeehoeve!

2020 was a special year for everyone. For us, it was the start of a great adventure. For years, we had wanted to live in a place where we had more space around us and where we could combine living and working. Preferably in a tourist location so that we could welcome guests and offer them a nice place to spend their vacation or weekend getaway. In Wemeldinge, located directly on the Oosterschelde National Park, we found a fantastic place where all of this is possible. In 2020, we built an authentic Zeeland farmhouse where we can live and work and where we have created two beautiful vacation homes for four to five people.

In his daily life, Stephan works as an independent electrical engineer for various companies in the Netherlands and Belgium. The middle part of the Chezeehoeve is therefore used as storage space for his company. Irma works part-time as a commercial employee at a nursery for fruit trees and fruit plants for private gardens. Now that we have a garden of over 6000 m2 ourselves, we will certainly be planting various fruit trees there! In addition to her work at the nursery, Irma will be happy to take on the role of hostess for the Chezeehoeve and be the first point of contact for all your questions. Together, we have worked with great pleasure to realize our dream. We outsourced the rough construction, but we did most of the finishing ourselves. It was a lot of work, but that makes us extra proud of the result!

Monument

Until October 2003, there was a black barn just like the one we have now built on the site where the Chezeehoeve now stands. It was used as a horse stable. Unfortunately, the barn was completely destroyed in a major fire at the time. The horse stable, together with the adjacent farmhouse on the right and the carriage house on the left, formed a municipal monument. The municipality of Kapelle wanted a new clapboard barn to be built on this site in Wemeldinge to restore the monumental appearance. Of course, using modern materials and techniques, but with the authentic look of the past. We did not restore the thatched roof, we reduced the length from 36 meters to 30 meters, and we added several windows and doors, but otherwise we came pretty close to the original barn. And although our Zeeland barn is brand new, together with our neighbors who own the old farmhouse and the original carriage house, we still form a municipal monument.