Paid Square is the most original of the city but in. Large outer dimensions, trapezoidal in shape and well proportioned, Located centrally in the town plan structure having a leading city for decoration. Town Square and alter the look of the two 18.-19. created by local architects century wooden buildings.

The central square of the historic buildings is striking at the Central Square 15 situated 20. Built in the mid-century shopping center, which fits into hard 19. century buildings in the Old Town.

What was formerly a shopping instead?

Central Square 15 plot was two large commercial buildings wood. Of these, Tallinn street side of the building bore the digits Marketplace 11 Street and Pärnu's Market Square 10. Historical data of the department store above the plot range 17. century. 18. century was divided into two plots. Pärnu street behind Market Square 10 has in the past belonged to the families of merchants operating in the City. 1875. worked as a building E. Kõiki Raua and koloniaalkauplus. Since the 1925 G. Pastel meat shop.

marketplace 11 the building was begun 19. century to find a butcher's shop. 20. century building was a two-storey wooden carvings known Kõrwitsa hat shop and Feeding of hunting - and musical instruments poena. The hat shop keeper was August Kõrwits, Their descendants included the world renowned Estonian musical dynasty Kõrwitsate. Paid born composer and musicologist Harri Pumpkin (See also this link). marketplace 10 and 11 Wooden houses started in the 1960s was liquidated, to begin to build a new shopping center. 1967. In July opened a new shop and cafeteria-restaurant "Paid" (vt: “Historical Weissenstein”).