The former market place was located at the entrance to the moated castle (1129), today still the residence of the princely family of Bentheim and Steinfurt. Today's old town of Burgsteinfurt developed from this core. The simpler half-timbered houses of the peasants, the larger ones of the merchants, but above all the splendid stone houses of the count's officials are examples of medieval architecture worth seeing. The centre of the historic town centre is the town hall (1561), with its finely designed gable. Burgsteinfurt's market square reflects two epochs in the town's history, as probably nowhere else in the Münsterland. The time of urban unfreedom under the count of Burgsteinfurt, who manifested his power in the construction of the wine house at Markt 19; on the other hand, the self-confidence of the aspiring bourgeoisie, which manifests itself in the show gable of the old town hall.
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