Anton Snorman's mansion

Anton Snorman's mansion
Locations
"Anton Snorman's mansion"
Anton Snorman's mansion as seen from the sky
Level	Building
Country	Groot Waterland
First appearance	Episode 12
Name in different languages
Dutch name	Anton Snorman's herenhuis
Japanese name	Unknown
German name	Unknown
English name	Unknown

Anton Snorman's mansion is located in Polderstad-West and is occupied by one person, namely Anton Snorman. Alfred Jodocus Kwak and the white chess queen spot Dolf de Kraai breaking into this mansion during a snowy night. They also encounter Krabnagel de Kater in the garden.

Notable features

The mansion is stately home surrounded by a massive garden with some trees and a gazebo.

Inhabitants

• 
  Anton Snorman
• 
  Anton Snorman's fiancée (Frequently stayed over)

Appearances

TV Series

• Alfred J. Kwak Episode 12
  Alfred J. Kwak Episode 12

Books

• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: De zeven eieren (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Omnibus 1 (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  Alfred J. Kwak Mijn avontuurlijke leven (1991) (Dutch)
• 
  Alfred J. Kwak Filmstripboek Deel 1 (2006) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Het Grote Voorleesboek (2010) (Dutch)

Production background

Johan Sebastiaan Kwak and Henk de Mol use Johan's clog to drift through the canals of the Plaspoelpolder.

The name the Plaspoelpolder was never mentioned in the show, but regularly mentioned in several Dutch books. It does not include the tree where Henk de Mol and Johan Sebastiaan Kwak meet. The tree and the Plaspoelpolder are also divided by the busy road. It contains mostly flat pastures, some canals and small ditches one could use a boat to pass through. It also includes the tree under which Johan's living clog is mostly stationed during the first episode.

In 1989 Hans Bacher was tasked to make a variety of paintings to send to the studios in Japan for inspiration on how to draw the Dutch landscapes properly. Many of these ended up in the end titles of the animated series. Some of these depict very clearly what the Plaspoelpolder should look like.

One stylistic element specifically added by Harald Siepermann is the depiction of a jet plane flying over the quiet meadow at the beginning of the story, intended to disrupt the idyllic setting and introduce a sense of conflict to inform the world building.

There is a Plaspoelpolder in real life, however it's a business park in Rijswijk in the Netherlands.

The hill with the tree where Johan lived in his clog as depicted in the final slide of the End Credits.