 During his travels the vicar Ottho Heldring stumbled upon the remote village and decided to invest in the village by building a well, a school and several years later, also a church.Around this time, a predecessor of the current Hoenderloo Group, at that time an institution for underprivileged boys, was founded.The current incarnation of this institution is still referred to as “The Boys House”, although it is not only for boys anymore.