B&B BLAUE VILLA

History

For decades the house was known as the Villa Rost, but since 1997 everyone in Schüttorf has been talking about "the blue villa." For that, Brigitte Seeling is to blame. Together with her

husband Eckhard, she bought the house and the 3,500 m2 of accompanying land in the mid-1990s. What a manufacturer had built in 1902 as a single-family house is today a

residential home, in which three families have found a home. The Seelings have chosen the belétage with a hunting room with many wood sculptures, said to have been crafted by Mr. Rost's daughter.

On the exterior, the ornate half-timbering particularly attracts attention as do the stucco decorations.  From the turret, four noblewomen and a whiskered beard that bodes ill for the future look down on the park.

They are wreathed by ornaments in the form of leaves, which are in four different shades of blue.

Why exactly blue? After all, the villa was originally painted ochre yellow.

Brigitte Seeling talks about the blue of the sky and blue Forget Myrtles

in the spring. Blue, she says, is initially cool and creates distance.

"Outwardly, we like to give that impression, even though we are not like that."

(sources: schuettorf.de)