Road of Weser Renaissance

The Weser Renaissance Route is a tourist route in northern Germany. It connects as a Cultural Route significant architectural monuments of the Weser Renaissance from the 16th and early 17th century. The road passes through the states of Hesse, North Rhine -Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen.

Description

The road leads to the Weser Renaissance palaces and noble residences, town halls and municipal buildings of stone or timber, which bear witness to the economic and cultural prosperity in the century before the Thirty Years' War ( 1618-1648).

Along the road between Hann. Munden and Bremen are found include the Renaissance, nowhere else to be found in this density in Germany. The term Weser Renaissance is misleading because it is not an independent regional characteristics of the Renaissance. In fact, the Renaissance buildings testify in the Weser region of the at that time existing pan-European connections. They allowed that the forms and ideas of the Renaissance, from Italy, even in the countries could spread north of the Alps.

Buildings

These among the many attractions are the castles Hämelschenburg, Biickeburg, Detmold, Brake, Neuhaus, Bevern, Hagen, Celle, and Hann. Munden. Town halls like the one in Bremen, Nienburg, Rinteln, Paderborn or Hann. Munden also convey an impression of the splendor of the era and magnificent town houses in Minden, Lemgo and Hamelin, not to mention the richly carved half-timbered facades, especially in Einbeck, Hoexter, Brakel and Bad Salzuflen. Art history of outstanding importance is the heptagonal Fürstenmausoleum in Hagen, which is reminiscent of the Florentine Renaissance. A visit to the Weser Renaissance Museum Brake Castle finally provides a further highlights of the trip in an unforgettable artistic and cultural landscape of the Weser space dar.