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Historic Old Town of Schwerte

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Schwerte

Historic Old Town of Schwerte

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Historic Old Town of Schwerte

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Location: Schwerte, Kreis Unna, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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2. Regatta course on the River Ruhr – Old Railway Bridge loop from Schwerte (Ruhr)

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3. Mühlenstrang Nature Reserve – Ruhr Bridge at Wellenbad loop from Schwerte (Ruhr)

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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

January 5, 2017

Schwerte's historic downtown still has some surviving old buildings that have meanwhile been restored. Unfortunately, the City Center is a late 70s complex of shops, city agencies, and public library in a central location on the market square, that replaced some of the previously more numerous half-timbered houses and alleys with 'modern' structures of questionable architectural design.

PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

March 4, 2019

The City Center in Schwerte is now viewed as a historical architectural sin...
The construction of the City Center destroyed entire rows of old houses in the center of Schwerte in the late 1970s...
ruhrnachrichten.de/nachrichten Schwerte/stadt-muss-580000-euro-rechnung-fuer-city-center-zahlen-1257000.html

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

March 4, 2019

The old town hall of the city of Schwerte was built in 1548/49 and today houses the Ruhr Valley Museum and the city archive. The elongated stone building, with its formerly open arcade, which has been closed by glazing since 1997, is oriented towards the former market square on the representative front in the north. Today the glazed vestibule is used as a multifunctional room for exhibitions, lectures or small concerts.

The narrow sides of the building have unadorned stepped gables. The upper floor is broken up by stone cross windows, while the round windows in the basement are a 19th century addition. The plastered structure with ashlar structure was restored between 1952 and 1957.

The interior of Schwerte's old town hall is characterized by several renovations and additions. There are longitudinal beams on wooden supports on both floors; the ground floor was formerly divided by a half-timbered wall running along the longitudinal axis.

The Old Town Hall is a testimony to the heyday of Schwerte in the Middle Ages and early modern times. The building was later also used as a court, prison and grain scale.

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Location: Schwerte, Kreis Unna, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Old Railway Bridge – Regatta Course on the Ruhr loop from Ergste

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