In 2007, the monument committee of Dorp Stad en Land in Zierikzee discovered in an vacant building without monument status an unusual object. In the former Salomonson weaving mill at Kerkhof Zuidzijde no. 3, where in the middle of the 19th century the poorest people the poorest of the poor provided for themselves as weavers. authentic set of trusses of a type that is extremely rare, and also proved to be unique proved unique to the Netherlands. The architect committee members of Dorp Stad en Land, Holger de Kat, Maarten Raaijmakers and Adriaan van der Zwan became intrigued and inspired by the extraordinary discovery. They decided to investigate the history of the 1840s building and the inventor of its trusses, a French engineer officer, to study more closely. On On the basis of archive research, a study trip to France and consultation with researchers and TU Delft, a broadly layered cultural-historical exploration emerged.