Gouda town hall / stadhuis van Gouda Holland

Gouda's town hall is located on the Markt. The fifteenth-century town hall is one of the oldest Gothic town halls in the Netherlands.

In 1395, the Gouda city council bought the market field from the Van der Goude lords to build a town hall there. However, it would not be until 1448 that construction began. According to city historian Ignatius Walvis, the city's poor financial position was the cause of the continued postponement. The new town hall served as a replacement for the old one, which, according to Walvis aan de Gouwe, stood on the site of the later De Zwaan brewery.
Others, however, locate the predecessor (from 1395) of the current town hall just east of the former police station on the Markt, with possibly another predecessor in a hall at the southern tip of the Markt.

One of the stonemasons was Jan III Keldermans, a member of a Brabant family of architects Keldermans from Mechelen. His son Andries also made a contribution.
The building was constructed from Belgian limestone. The foundation was not piled, but several rafts of heavy oak beams were used. In 1459, the construction of the town hall was completed after the completion of the tower, although it had already been put into use in 1450. In 1497, the town hall was renovated on the occasion of the visit of Philip the Fair to the city. The building was renovated in 1517/1518. According to the historian Walvis, the town hall was surrounded by water until 1603 and could be reached by a drawbridge.
In that year (1603) the current platform in Renaissance style was made by the city sculptor Gregorius Cool.

Another major renovation took place in the period 1692-1697. The current scaffold at the rear of the town hall was also built during that period. Before that time, there was already a scaffold at the town hall, which was first mentioned in 1525. Until 1897, the scaffold could be climbed by means of a wooden staircase on the outside of the town hall. Prisoners were not allowed to walk inside the city hall. On April 24, 1897, Queen Wilhelmina visited Gouda. To give her the opportunity to wave to the population from the platform, one of the windows was replaced by two sliding glass doors, so that the platform has since been accessible from the inside of the town hall.

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