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WeighhouseThe first building where all merchandise to be sold in the market square was weighed was most likely built in the second half of the thirteenth century. Rebuilt in the years 1532-1534, it was expanded by Giovanni Battista di Quadro thirty years later. Some remnants of the Renaissance interior that can now be seen in the town hall, namely a fireplace decorated with the municipal coat of arms and lintels with Latin inscriptions, bear testimony to the importance of the building, which temporarily served as the seat of municipalities. Young craftsmen received fencing instructions in the weighhouse and masses were held there when the parish church was inaccessible due to floods.
The building was pulled down in 1890 and replaced with the Neo-Renaissance New Town Hall. After the war, the weighhouse was reconstructed on the basis of iconographic records together with the pastry stalls that once adjoined it to the east. It is now used as a concert venue.
A plaque commemorates the contribution made by the architect Zbigniew Zieliński to the design concept for the post-war reconstruction of Poznań's Old Town.