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The 'Peperhuis' (Pepper House)

The Peperhuis is the only building in Enkhuizen that keeps the memory of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) alive.

The wealthy salesman and ship owner Pieter van Beresteyn had it built in 1625. He used it as a home, office and warehouse.

His widow sold it to the VOC in 1682. This illustrious trading company stored pepper and other products from the East in the building until the end of the eighteenth century.

The building was donated to the Zuiderzee Museum in 1947 by the owners at that time, the Enkhuizen seed trading company 'Sluis en Groot'.

The Zuiderzee Museum reconstructed the 18th century VOC warehouse at 'de

Peperzolder' (the Pepper Attic). Much of the original interior has remained intact. Notches and numbers are still visible on the beams, which show where the shelves that stored the goods were once positioned.