Weigh house

The city scale is a public institution for the weighing of goods merchant.

Before the spread nationally uniform measure weight of city might be different from town. To prevent fraud, merchants were required since the Middle Ages in various cities to let determine the weight of their merchandise in the erected by the city authorities balance. In most cases they had to charge a fee to pay the balance money or cradle money. The right of the city, the merchants hang such an obligation ( legal cradle ), was often part of the issued sovereign city law or market law. City scales are usually on the ground floor partially open buildings. Often, the establishment also offered the opportunity to pitch goods, but mostly the scale building was already in a marketplace.

  • 2.1 Germany
  • 2.2 Switzerland

City Scales Got

In many cities, there are still well-preserved old city scales.

Germany

  • Bremen, see Stadtwaage (Bremen)
  • Emmerich am Rhein
  • Leipzig, see Old Weigh
  • Michel city
  • Osnabrück ( 1532 built, burnt out in the Second World War, in 1953 reconstructed externally used as a registry office today )
  • Stralsund: see city scale ( Stralsund ) (now the Children's Library )
  • Dorsten

Belgium

  • Kortrijk

Netherlands

Former city Scales

Germany

  • Frankfurt am Main, see Stadtwaage (Frankfurt am Main )
  • Nuremberg

Switzerland

  • Weighing house (Winterthur)
  • Municipal law
  • Town History
  • Building
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