Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The City Weigh House is a 17th-century building at Sukiennicza Street in the town market square. It is the only preserved object of this type in the region and is counted among the greatest works of secular bourgeois architecture of modern times. The house was founded by Bishop Jan Sitsch, in the Dutch Renaissance style. In the place where the current building stands, in the Middle Ages there were cloth halls with stalls and a warehouse of goods, as well as the seat of the administrative board of the episcopal duchy and the chamber of weights and measures. In the two-arcade arcade, there was an official goods scale, and the standard of the ell measure was also stored there. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Weigh House was destroyed. A souvenir of these times is a cannonball embedded in the southern facade of the building. In 1945, the City Weigh House was burned, and then – after the capture of Nysa – blown up by the Red Army. Currently, a public library is located in the rebuilt house. From the original decor of the facade, the figure of Iustitia and small fragments of the former polychrome have been preserved to this day. Practical information: The facility is not open to visitors. Parking spaces on Oławska Street.