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Zunft zum Kämbel was originally a guild of food dealers and wine merchants. Its first
Trinkstube (tavern and association meeting place) was located near the town hall. In 1358, the Zürich knight Götz Mülner II had sold sovereignty rights granted by Emperor Louis of Bavaria to the city of Zürich. The newly acquired possessions were administered by an
Obervogt with its administration centre in the "Haue" building. Their guild house was first mentioned in a 1389 document as
Kembel. In 1442 the building was in the possession of salt merchants, and from 1450 it was known as the "Salzlütenhus", "Houw", or "Salzhouw". The term
Houw is derived from the axe featured on the salt merchant's coat of arms. In 1487 the guild acquired the
House zum Kämbel which is still located at the
Münsterhof 18. The siting at the Münsterhof plaza is seen as a deliberate distancing from the noble guild houses of the more prominent guilds in Zürich. In 1532, the cloth merchant Konrad Rollenbutz acquired the property and gave it to his two sons. From the second half of the 16th century, the "Haue" was in the possession of Salomon Hirzel-Rollenbutz (1544–1605) and his son, the Zürich mayor Salomon Hirzel (1580–1652). In 1781, the building was the home of Rudolf Hirzel Rordorf-Sprüngli. The Haue building was sold to the colonial goods merchant Beckert, being its last private owner, in 1878. On 31 May 1956 – 150 years after its formal dissolution – the newly established
Gesellschaft zum Kämbel bought the Haue building. Since 1980, it has housed a restaurant (Weinstube). == Architecture ==