The Hanseatic Museum & Schøtstuene assembly rooms
Hanseatic merchants' assembly rooms where fires were allowed for communal winter meals and meetings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Schøtstuene assembly rooms in Bergen starts with a king's angry speech in eleven eighty-six, delivered to a town that had just endured a violent, wine-soaked summer. It follows the German merchants of the Hanseatic League, the dried cod they came for, and the unmarried young men who spent Bergen's dark winters on the wharf of Bryggen. Stand inside one of the rooms and listen for why fire mattered so much here.
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