The Waag ("weigh house") is a 15th-century building on Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam. It was originally a city gate and part of the walls of Amsterdam. Later it served as a guildhall, museum, fire station and anatomical theatre, among other things. The Waag is the oldest remaining non-religious building in Amsterdam. [1] .

No less than 169 weighing-houses have been built in the Netherlands, but only one still stands in the heart of Amsterdam, surrounded by a complex grid of canals and streets, right on the 'New Market'. This stout two-storey structure was built in 1488 as town entrance and was named the "St Anthony's Gate".

De Waag ( Weigh House ) is an absolutely stunning gate house that is located in one of Amsterdams most famous and popular squares namely Nieuwmark.

The balance scales inside the weigh house - Alkmaar. The Waag (balance scale) building has an interesting history dating back to the 14th century. In that period it was built as a chapel for the adjacent Holy Spirit hospital where poor travelers could get free accommodation for three days and nights. Also the sick were nursed in this hospital.

The Waag ('weigh house') is a remnant of the former city walls in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Originally it was one of the city gates. View on De Waag from Kloveniersburgwal. The city walls that the ' Sint Anthoniespoort ' (former name of the Waag) was part of …

The Waag (“weigh house”) is one of Amsterdam’s oldest standing buildings. It was originally constructed in 1488 as one of the main gates in Amsterdam’s medieval city wall known as Sint Antoniespoort (St. Anthony’s Gate).

Amsterdam’s ‘House of Weights’, known locally as De Waag, is a remarkable monument situated on the Nieuwmarkt. Originally one of Amsterdam’s three city gates when built in 1488, it was transformed into a weighing house when the city expanded in the 1600s and the name stuck.

It’s the oldest non-religious building in Amsterdam. The gate is first referred to in a deed in 1466. However, it is quite possible that it is even older. The outer canal, the current Geldersekade and Kloveniersburgwal, along which the gate was built, was dug during the 1425 expansion of the city.

2018年6月20日 · Once a hotspot for public executions and dissections during the Golden Age, the medieval and castle-like “Weigh House” is now a global center for bio-hacking.

2023年4月16日 · The gothic Waag (Weigh House) on Nieuw­markt square was St. Anthony’s Gate once, one of the major city gates in the medieval city wall. These days the only remnants of that defense wall are the Waag, part of the Regulars Gate …