Guild house
The guild house is the traditional meeting house of the guilds , the forerunner of the guilds .
The guilds, which gained significant influence in the course of the Middle Ages, established their own residences in many cities. They served as a meeting place, for festivities, and also as a hostel for traveling journeyman and old people's home for guild members.
Examples
Zurich guild houses:
- Zunfthaus zur Meisen (Meise) - innkeepers
- Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten - carpenters, bricklayers and binders
- Zunfthaus zur Haue - salt people
- Zunfthaus zum Rüden - ministerial nobility , merchants, civic patriziate ( Constaffel )
- Zunfthaus zum Kämbel (camel) - an important amalgamation of numerous trades
Further
- Shopkeeper House (Koblenz)
- Large guild in Memmingen - patricians
- Tailor's hostel in Salzburg (today Hotel Weisse Taube) - at that time the only guild house in the archbishopric
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