Toll hall
A toll hall was used in cities with municipal financial sovereignty to collect tolls and customs duties . Often this was also associated with the obligation to store items within the framework of the stacking law . With the establishment of the German Customs Association and, if applicable, its predecessors, municipal rights were extinguished almost everywhere and now the toll halls were no longer in use.
Well known is the Nuremberg toll hall , which was built between 1498 and 1502 by Hans Beheim the Elder. Ä. was built and is now a monument in the old town.