Fronton 1711

This is a special monument. The building is always dated 1711, because that is what it says on the Gable stone in the pediment, but the building is much older. This can be clearly seen on the side facade, which has all the characteristics of the Maasland Renaissance and therefore dates from the third quarter of the 17th century. The front facade was renewed in 1711, and the new layout does not correspond at all to the position of the beams, which are recognisable by the anchor bolts in the side facade.

The oldest known owner is Petrus Simonis. He married Maria Jansen on 1 April 1664. Further details about him have not been found. However, a deed from 1710 shows that his widow and daughter Maria sold "certain house and court with its dependencies, located on Grote Gracht, making it the corner house of Capucijnenstraat" for 11,000 guilders brabants to Petrus Fosseroul. The Fosseroul family came from Liege and held various positions in the city magistracy. They were further related by marriage to several prominent Maastricht families. So was Petrus. He married Maria Ida Roosen in 1695. Her father Otto Roosen was a licenciate in both laws and alderman and sworn in the period 1734-1766. It is very likely that Petrus Fosseroul began a major renovation immediately after purchasing the property, as evidenced by the date 1711 in the pediment. After his death in 1742 the building came into the possession of his son Petrus Egidius, canon of the chapter of Our Lady. With his death the last male descendant of this lineage had gone. His nephew Petrus Servatius Roosen, also a canon in the same chapter, now took up residence in the house and thus continued the function of canon house. He died in 1794 and then the property was sold to Petrus Franciscus Dumoulin, who sold it again in 1800 to Joannes Knoops.

Knoops was a baker by profession until his death in 1814 and was married to Sophia Grein, who died in 1821. The following year, so in 1822, ownership of the property passed to Lambert Neyens. He was also a baker and was married to Anna Elisabeth Grein. The house remained a bread bakery and in the family ownership for about half a century. Lambert died in 1849 and then Hubertus Gudi became the new owner. He was a shopkeeper and also a wax candle manufacturer. In 1892 the property passed to Jan Bouwens, a liquor dealer by profession. In that period there was first a cadastral division and later another division/merger. In 1930 the insurance company Constant Guillaume Schreinemacher followed, who sold the property a year later to "Het Zedelijk Lichaam named Notre Dame de Lorette" with headquarters at Grote Gracht 74. In 1970 Johannes Hendrikus van Kan bought the building. He was a contractor by profession. Certainly not all owners lived there themselves.

Two photographs show the various functions of the building. In 1916 there was an off-licence/patisserie, and in 1959 the building appears to have been divided into a Cafe Central on the corner owned by a certain De Waal, and at No. 64A there was a shop called BEMA (possibly beds and mattresses).