The salt house, a building in the classical style with large columns at the corners topped by Ionian capitals. On the lower floor, along the Hauptstrasse, there are eleven Romanesque arcade-like openings, as windows or entrances. The arcades were created during a conversion before 1900. During the original construction in 1786, the rubble of the "Pfalz" (city hostel) and the "Laube" (warehouse), which had until 1689 stood in the middle of the Hauptstrasse, were used to supply some of the building materials. Today, the building houses business and administration areas.
Here, the salt measurers once weighed and sold the salt brought in principally from Lothringen, and later also from Dürrheim. At that time, the townspeople had to satisfy their need for salt from the hands of the city establishment, who possessed a monopoly on the sale of this vital material, used for the consumption and conservation of food supplies. Anyone who supplied his needs from other sources had to reckon with heavy penalties.
