Museo
Waag, Oudewater
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Nice museum to visit, also with kids. The witches scales. The scales are in the public weigh house, a Renaissance building with a stepped gable and brick mosaic tympanums. In the 16C, women suspected of witchcraft were brought here from afar to be weighed in the presence of the bourgmestre: if their weight was not too low in relation to their height, it was calculated that they could not sit astride a broomstick and they were acquitted... the last acquittal certificate dates from 1729! The storehouse now contains a museum on the history of witchcraft.
Nice museum to visit, also with kids. The witches scales. The scales are in the public weigh house, a Renaissance building with a stepped gable and brick mosaic tympanums. In the 16C, women suspected of witchcraft were brought here from afar to be weighed in the presence of the bourgmestre: if their…
THE place in the Dark Ages where you could proof not to be a witch, without having to drown or burn first. At "de Heksenwaag" you can still get your weightcertificate to proof you are to heavy to fly!
Oudewater is a beautiful little town. By car it is 15 minutes, by bike it is 45 minutes (beautiful route).
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Ubicación
2 Leeuweringerstraat
Oudewater, UT