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Welcome to the Weser Renaissance Route. But what exactly is "Weser Renaissance"? The Weser Renaissance museum at Brake Castle near Lemgo illustrates and explains the term, which can be misleading as it might suggest a separate regional variant of the Renaissance style. Actually, the Renaissance buildings in the Weser region are evidence of the connections that existed throughout Europe at that time, and which made it possible for the architecture and the ideas of the Renaissance to spread from Italy to the countries north of the Alps. Today, no other region in Germany has as many Renaissance buildings as can be found along the Weser Renaissance Route between Hannoversch-Münden and Bremen.
For 350 kilometres this cultural route runs though the federal states of Hessen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen, linking their architectural monuments from the 16th and early 17th centuries. This magnificent style of building - named after the river - is a real art-historical treat. Both the landed gentry and townspeople adorned their residences with elaborate facades. The Weser Renaissance Route includes palaces and stately homes, town halls and town houses, stone-built or timber-framed, all bearing witness to the economic and cultural boom of the period before the Thirty Years War. Comprehensive signposting makes it very easy to follow the route.
