Waag
In Waag once stood a 15th-century gateway that guarded Amsterdam’s old moat and city walls. The Sint Antoniespoort gate sat at the end of the Zeedijk, with the gate’s brick walls and a stone pediment dating back to late 1400s, as seen in the gable stone inscription that marks the first stone laid on April 28, 1488. The building later became the Waag, a guildhall and the city’s weigh house, and it later served as a museum, fire station, and even an anatomical theatre, reflecting its role as a flexible civic stage through centuries. The Waag is the oldest remaining non-religious building in Amsterdam and was listed as a national monument in 1970, preserving its memory even after the physical structure was demolished. Remnants of the old city walls survive in the urban fabric elsewhere, while the site today is marked by the absence of the structure that once dominated Nieuwmarkt. In Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. …
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