Monument for Christoffel Pullman, made c. 1815, renovated in 1882. Christoffel Pullman (1757-1787), a German, served as a soldier in the army of Stadholder William V. He was killed by Patriot troops on the night of 27 July 1787 while standing guard near Soestdijk palace. His death turned Pullman into a hero of the Orangist cause and a marble monument was immediately erected in his honour. But when the stadholder was driven from power in 1795, Pullman's name, and subsequently also the memorial, disappeared. Some twenty years later, after the French had left and William I had ascended the throne in 1813, this monument was unveiled in its stead.