Boschpoort

The Boschpoort gate and the outlying defense works were demolished in the 1860s when Maastricht ceased to be a fortress town.

The Boschpoort neighbourhood was built slightly North of the old city gate in the early twentieth century.

It was largely a working class neighbourhood, being close to the Sphinx potteries, the paper factory and other industries around the Bassin inner harbour and the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal.

The Roman Catholic church of Saint Hubert, an imposing expressionist building dating from the 1920s, was sold in 2009 after having stood empty for several years and has been converted into a fitness centre.

[1] It is hoped that the neighbourhood will benefit from plans for regeneration of the industrial North Western part of Maastricht (Belvédère Project).