Tourist attraction
Koïfhus
Gothic-Renaissance customs house with a tiled turret roof, later reborn as a theatre and bank.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Koïfhus in Colmar follows the old customs house from its medieval role taxing merchants and hosting the Décapole, the alliance of ten Alsatian free cities, through the sweeping change the French Revolution forced on it. You'll hear how the building reinvented itself again and again afterward, from a theatre to a bank to the regional Chamber of Commerce. It's a story about what a city does with a grand building once its original purpose disappears.
This audio guide was created using AI.