List of buildings identified as weigh house explained

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Belgium

• Antwerpen (1547–1873, precedent)^[1]
• Weigh house of Kortrijk (?)^[2]

Estonia

• Weigh house of Narva (1741–1944)^[3]

France

• Poids du Roi La Rochelle (?)^[4]
• Poids public Buzet-sur-Tarn
• Poids public La Chpelle Grésignac in Dordogne

Germany

• Weigh house in Berlin (1831, part of the new storage yard called "Packhof")^[5]
• Weigh house of Brakel (around 1350)
• Old weigh house of Braunschweig (1534-1944, 1994)^[6]
• Weigh house of Bremen (1588)^[7]
• Weigh house of Frankfurt on the Main (1503-1944)^[8]
• Weigh house of Görlitz (1600)^[9]
• Weigh house of Halle/Saale (1581)^[10]
• Weigh house of Hamburg (1672–1842)
• Weigh house of Kempten (?)^[11]
• Weigh house of Leer (1714)^[12]
• Weigh house of Leipzig (1555)^[13]
• Weigh house of Lübeck (1444, annex town hall called "Kriegsstubenbau")^[14]
• Weigh house of Osnabrück (1532)^[15]
• Weigh house of Ravensburg (1556)^[16]
• Weigh house of Stade (1753)^[17]
• Weigh house of Stralsund (13. or 14. c.)
• Harbour weigh house in Stralsund (13. or 14. c.)^[18]

Great Britain

• Weigh house of Edinburgh (1352–1820, ?)^[19]
• Custom house of London (1718)

Ireland

• Gort (Mid to late 18th c.)^[20]
• Scariff, County Clare.^[21]

Italy

• Weigh house of Bolzano (14. c.)^[22]
• Dogana of Florence (1495, annex to the Palazzo Vecchio)^[23]
• Dogana di San Fermo in Verona (1746^[24]
• Dogana Terra in Venice (after 1513, Palazzo dei Dieci Savi);

Netherlands^[25]

• Weigh house of Alkmaar (1582, originally a Holy Spirit Hospital)^[26]
• Weigh house of Amersfoort (1622–1865)
• Weigh house of Amsterdam (1565–1808, precedent)^[27]
• Weigh house of Amsterdam (1620–1857 on the Westermarket)
• St. Antonies Weigh house in Amsterdam (1488, city gate called "St. Antoniespoort")
• Amsterdam (1655, city gate called "Regulierspoort")
• Weigh house of Arnhem (1761, tower type)
• Weigh house of Bergen op Zoom (1751)
• Weigh house of Breda (1659–1865)
• Weigh house of Brielle (1623)
• Weigh house of Brouwershaven (1646)
• Weigh house of Buren (1612)^[28]
• Weigh house of Delfshaven (?)
• Weigh house of Delft (16th century)
• Weigh house of Den Haag (after 1650)
• Weigh house of Deventer (1528)^[29]
• Weigh house of Doesburg (around 15th century)
• Weigh house for iron in Dordrecht (1325)
• Weigh house of Dokkum (1593)^[30]
• Weigh house of Dordrecht (1360)
• Weigh house of Edam (1778)^[31]
• Weigh house of Elburg (?–1854), city gate called "Goor gate")
• Weigh house of Enkhuizen (1559, dwelling).^[32]
• Weigh house of Franeker (1657, drive through type)^[33]
• Weigh house of Gouda (1668, synthesis type)^[34]
• Weigh house of Groenlo (16th century)
• Weigh house of Groningen (1660–1874, drive through type)
• Weigh house of Haarlem (1598, tower type)^[35]
• Weigh house of Hattem (1621)
• Weigh house of Hoorn (1609, loggia type)^[36]
• Weigh house of Ijsselstein (1779)
• Weigh house of Kampem (?, city gate called "Veene gate")
• Weigh house of Leeuwarden (1598, drive through type)^[37]
• Weigh house of Leiden (1658, synthesis type)^[38]
• Weigh house of Lochem (after 1640)
• Weigh house for wool in Maastricht (1721)
• Weigh house of Makkum (1698, tower type)^[39]
• Weigh house of Medemblik (17th century)
• Weigh house of Meppel (1617)
• Weigh house of Middelburg (1523)
• Weigh house of Monnickendam (1669, loggia type)^[40]
• Weigh house of Montfoort (1615 – 20th century)
• Weigh house of Nieuwpoort (1697)
• Weigh house of Nijmegen (1612)^[41]
• Weigh house of Oudewater (1595)
• Weigh house of Schiedam (1572)
• Weigh house of Schoonhoven (1617)^[42]
• Weigh house of Purmerend (1744–1883)
• Weigh house of Rhenen (1738–1960s)
• Weigh house of Rotterdam (1703–1827, loggia type)^[43]
• Weigh house for butter in Rotterdam (1619)
• Weigh house of Sneek (17th century)
• Weigh house of Steenwijk (1642)
• Weigh house of Utrecht (1410)
• Weigh house of Vianen (17th century)
• Weigh house of Vlaardingen (around 1609)^[44]
• Weigh house of Workum (1650, drive through type)^[45]
• Weigh house of Zaltbommel (1798)

Poland

• Weigh house of Krakow (second half of the 14th century – ca.1875, "Wielka Waga Miejska")
• Weigh house of Nysa (1606, wooden scale in front of a store house)^[46]
• Weigh house of Poznan (1534, annex town hall)^[47]
• Weigh house of Wroclaw (small structure in front of the trade hall from 1242)^[48]

Suriname

• Weigh house of Paramaribo (1824)

Switzerland

• Weigh tower of Schaffhausen (1747, patrician house, called "Fronwaagturm")^[49]
• Weigh house of St. Gallen (1585, trade hall)^[50]
• Winterthur (1503)

Literature and external link

• Karl Kiem: Die Waage. Ein Bautyp des »Goldenen Jahrhunderts« in Holland, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-7861-2605-8. (Englisch edition from 2019 Online as PDF available).

Notes and References

1. Kiem 2019, p. 105 et seqq.
2. Egied Van Hoonacker, Duizende Kortrijkse straten, N.V. Vonksteen, Langemark, 1986, p. 591 et seqq.
3. Kiem 2019, p. 257 et seqq.
4. Kiem 2019, p. 252 et seq.
5. Kiem 2019, p. 244, 246
6. Manfred R. W. Garzmann (Hrsg.): Die Alte Waage in der Braunschweiger Neustadt. Ausgrabungsbefunde, Geschichte des Weichbildes Neustadt, Rekonstruktion und Platzgestaltung. Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1993 (=Braunschweiger Werkstücke, Reihe A, Bd. 87), .
7. Rudolf Stein: Romanische, gotische und Renaissance-Baukunst in Bremen, Bremen 1962, p. 504–516.
8. Rudolf Jung, Carl Wolff: Die Baudenkmäler in Frankfurt am Main. Zweiter Band. Weltliche Bauten. Völker, Frankfurt am Main 1898, p. 295–300
9. Ernst-Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. Eine historische Topographie. 2. Auflage. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, p. 32, 110, 157, .
10. Renate Kroll: Halle (Saale). In: Schicksale deutscher Baudenkmale im zweiten Weltkrieg. Ed. Götz Eckardt. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1978. Vol. 2, p. 326–327
11. Michael Petzet: Stadt und Landkreis Kempten (= Bayerische Kunstdenkmale. Band 5). Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1959, p. 64.
12. Gottfried Kiesow: Architekturführer Ostfriesland. Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010, p. 131 et seq.,
13. Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig. Architektur von der Romanik bis zur Gegenwart. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2004, p. 42, .
14. Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens, Lutz Wilde: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Hansestadt Lübeck. Band I, 2. Teil: Rathaus und öffentliche Gebäude der Stadt. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, p. 3–273,
15. Kiem 2019, p. 232
16. https://www.digishelf.de/rest/pdf/mets/bsz407605185_1999.xml/LOG_0040/Im_Rathaus_tagte_nicht_nur_der_Rat__ber_die_Nutzung_der_Rathausrumlichkeiten.pdf?watermarkId=bsz-st-bodenseebibliotheken
17. Web site: Stader Stadtwaage . 14 May 2019 .
18. Dehio-Handbuch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, p. 670, .
19. Web site: Edinburgh Castle- the Weigh House .
20. Web site: We Protect. An Taisce - The National Trust For Ireland.
21. Web site: Scariff Community Council, BALLYMINOGE, County Clare . Buildings of Ireland . 9 September 2020.
22. Josef Weingartner: Die Kunstdenkmäler Bolzanos. Wien-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 145.
23. Donatella Calabi, Il mercato e la città; piazze, strade, archtetture d'Europa in età moderna. Venezia 1993, p. 82.
24. https://verona.com/it/verona/dogana-di-san-fermo/
25. Kiem 2019, p. 281-305 if not mentioned otherwise.
26. Kiem 2019, p. 37-52.
27. Kiem 2019, p. 111-117.
28. Kiem 2019, p. 71.
29. Kiem 2019, p. 27-36.
30. Kiem 2019, p. 64-70.
31. Kiem 2019, p. 122-124.
32. Kiem 2019, p. 57-63.
33. Kiem 2019, p. 86-89.
34. Kiem 2019, p. 157-168.
35. Kiem 2019, p. 91-96.
36. Kiem 2019, p. 126-135.
37. Kiem 2019, p. 75-79.
38. Kiem 2019, p. 148-156.
39. Kiem 2019, p. 97-104.
40. Kiem 2019, p. 136-141.
41. Kiem 2019, p. 53-56.
42. Kiem 2019, p. 118-121.
43. Kiem 2019, p. 142-146.
44. Kiem 2019, p. 72.
45. Kiem 2019, p. 80-84.
46. Kiem 2019, p. 183 et seq.
47. Web site: Waga miejska - Przewodnik po Starym Rynku - Poznan.pl .
48. Gerhard Nagel, Das mittelalterliche Kaufhaus und seeine Stellung in der Stadt; eine baugeschichtliche Untersuchung an südwestdeutschen Beispiel. Berlin 1971. fig. 177 and 178.
49. Web site: Wohnturm - Schaffhausen-Geschichte .
50. Erwin Poeschel (Berarb.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons St. Gallen. Band 2. Die Stadt St. Gallen. Teil 1: Geschichte, Befestigung, Kirchen (ohne Stift) und Profanbauten (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz; Bd. 37). Birkhäuser, Basel 1957. 252.