Butterfly house

In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the butterfly house (from smack = dizzy, haggle ) was the name of a large market hall with an undivided interior, in which the craftsmen's benches (stalls) were set up. The butterfly houses were mostly on the market square . The name was particularly common in the eastern German settlement areas and was similar to the Gewandhaus and the linen house , but not synonymous .

The butterfly house in Opava, rebuilt in 1903, is now used as the seat of the city council. There were other well-known butterhouses in Breslau , Brno and also in Poznan (before 1655). The Breslau Butterfly House, which was demolished in 1824, was first mentioned in 1426.

Individual evidence

↑ Butterfly House. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
↑ Arsenał i jatki rzeźnicze - MKZ. (Polish)
^ Fritz Wiggert: Origin and development of the old Silesian furrier trade with special consideration of the furrier guilds in Breslau and Neumarkt . Breslauer Kürschnerinnung (Ed.), 1926, p. 301 ( book cover and table of contents ).

[1] Butterfly House. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

[2] Arsenał i jatki rzeźnicze - MKZ. (Polish)

[3] Fritz Wiggert: Origin and development of the old Silesian furrier trade with special consideration of the furrier guilds in Breslau and Neumarkt . Breslauer Kürschnerinnung (Ed.), 1926, p. 301 ( book cover and table of contents ).