restaurantpakhoes

The building is a national monument that was built around the year 1700. It was meant for trading and storing goods in the city. These goods were supplied through a small inland port at the Water Gate.

Around 1719, the building was possessed by a man named Arnoldus Rouffaer, who inherited it through his father in law as part of a gin distillery. He used the building as a grain storage. The gin distillery flourished under his son Johannes and his grandson Arnoldus. They used the “Pakhoes” as their office around 1780.

The Rouffaer family left the building in 1794 and moved to Amsterdam, because of the occupation of Maastricht by the French. The building was still used as storage up to the mid nineteen-hundreds for ships that loaded and unloaded at the Water Gate.