Altstadt Schwalenberg

Historic buildings with living stories

In addition to numerous old town houses, the town hall built in 1579, a monument to the half-timbered architecture of the Weser Renaissance, bears witness to this heyday.

In 1603 and 1906, this unique architectural monument was extended while preserving the Renaissance ornamentation.

It is likely that there was an open market hall on the first floor behind the round arches, which was closed after the Thirty Years' War and converted into the "Ratskeller".

The old town center with St. John's Church from 1307 still nestles almost unchanged like a swallow's nest on the castle hill. Antiquity and romance look out at visitors from every angle, fountains ripple along the roadsides. But Schwalenberg Castle watches over everything and looks out from the top of the castle hill far into the countryside as far as the Teutoburg Forest with its Hermann monument.