Surrounding AreaIt is proudly called 'the city of the Weser-renaissance': the idyllic old Hanseatic town Hameln. The picture of the Old Town is defined by half-timbered houses and magnificent Renaissance buildings: the market square with Dempterhaus, the Wedding and Foundation Manor House - and last but not least the 'Rattenfaengerhaus' (rat catcher's house) from the year 1603. What, after all, would Hameln be without the tale of the rat catcher, who - deprived of his fair reward - lured away all the children of the city with his flute playing. Every year the tale is brought back to life at the Rattenfaenger Open Air Theater. |