Waag

The Waag building is a National monument indexed building on the Waagplein in Alkmaar inside the Netherlands. On this square Waagplein from April until the second one week of September, the well-known cheese marketplace is held. The Dutch Cheese Museum and the traveler statistics Office are also inside the constructing. In the tower is a well-known carillon weekly performed through a carilloneur and additionally automatically by using a drum chiming the quarters of the hour. There is likewise the well-known automated horse with knights play inside the tower with an automatic trumpetplayer. The Waag constructing has an thrilling records dating again to the 14th century.

In that length it was built as a chapel for the adjoining Holy Spirit clinic in which terrible vacationers ought to get loose accommodation for 3 days and nights. Also the ill had been nursed on this sanatorium. In 1566 the Bishop of Haarlem gave permission to the Holy Spirit hospital to re-motive the health center constructing for weighing. In 1582, the weighing activities were moved to the larger Holy Spirit Chapel, which by then changed into now not being used for divine offerings.