On January 14, Tony Burisch from the Heidelberg Heritage Association unveiled the latest blue plaque at 98 Begeman Street.
The house was known as Grandpa Carl Schultz house. Carl Wilhelm Schultz was born on May 8, 1854, in Groß Luckow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Schultz married Johanna Augustine Kath in 1875. They had eight children.
Carl trekked via ox wagon from the Cape Colony to Heidelberg together with his wife and sister Annie Adelina Schubach in 1890.
When Carl settled in Heidelberg, he became a trader and butcher.
During the Anglo Boer War in 1900, the British troops captured Carl, who spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp.
Two of his sons Carl Jnr and Albert were arrested with him and a third son William was captured at Paardeberg.
Albert married General Spruyt’s daughter Hester. Grandpa Carl died on October 10, 1930, in Heidelberg, aged 76.
Carl and Augustine Schultz are both buried in the Heidelberg Kloof Cemetery.
The current homeowners, Pierre and Kristelle Cronje, have been owners of the house for seven years.
Kristelle said, “I love old houses and am trying to get the house back to how it looked originally when Carl and his family stayed there.”
As far as could be established, the premises had five previous owners. Sybrand and Beverley van der Spuy stayed in the house from 1968 to 1971.
Sybrand’s mother worked for Carl’s family in the 1920s.
