RATUSZ – WAGA MIEJSKA – GIEŁDA PAŃSKA W KÓRNIKU

This article presents the history and the former function of the house located at the corner of Zamkowa Street and the southern frontage of the market (currently 50 Wolności Square). The assumption that the facility functioned as a weigh house has not been confirmed by archival research. Built before 1773 by Teofila Potulicka, née Działyńska – the then-owner of Kórnik, the building, referred to in literature as the Lady’s inn, was one of the town public houses, in which alcoholic beverages manufactured in the owner’s brewery and distillery were served. When the new town hall, with its central part designated for an inn, was erected in 1775, the Lady’s inn situated at some distance to the trading place gave way to the much larger town hall inn. After all, it was the town hall which was the centre of the social and trade life of the town – its left wing housed the public weighing facilities, and there were traders’ stalls nearby. The town owner’s alcohol beverages were also served in the Na Piaskach inn the owner erected in the 1770s and in the Tumidaj inn built at the turn of the 19th century. At that time, two flats were made in the Lady’s inn and the building managed to survive to our own times in this form. Despite many refurbishments, its interior still features its 18th-century wooden ceiling, fireplaces and the chimney base of the former kitchen.