Gouda Town Hall

The town hall of Gouda is located on the Markt. The fifteenth-century town hall is one of the oldest Gothic town halls in the Netherlands

In 1395, the city council of Gouda bought the market field from the lords Van der Goude to build a town hall there. However, it was not until 1448 that construction began. According to the city historian Ignatius Walvis, the city's poor financial position was the cause of the constant postponement. The new town hall served as a replacement for the old one, which, according to Walvis aan de Gouwe, stood on the site of the later brewery de Zwaan. Others, however, situate the predecessor of the current town hall just east of the former police station on the Markt, with possibly a predecessor in a hall at the southern tip of the Markt.

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