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Walkabout in Osterode's old town part 2
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image author: city-map Osterode
On reaches the
Langen Krummen Bruch.
This area of Osterodes was originally very damp
and closed the gap between
old and new town.
The building No.18 reminds with a memorial plaque at its use as Jewish school and Synagogue.
Coming from the Langen Krummen Bruch we turn right into the Scheffelstrasse.
At our left we see the Luisen-school, which houses today the Osteroder town library.
Now we are at the town's pedestrian area and turn right into the Waagestrasse.
The wonderful building of the scale of justice catches one's eye immediately.
The former wedding and weighting house impresses through its facade.
From the Waagestrasse one walks left through the Hellhofstrasse towards the road Strasse am Schilde.
Handymen and traders lived in the past in these middle-class houses. One can see the building differents to the new town. Here agricultural utility was not asked for.
On the left one can see immediately the old historical guildhall.
These impressive building was Osterode's pride and was representative for the town's riches.
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At the guildhall's front wall one can see a sculpture of the Harzer donkey herder.
From the guildhall's front we walk into the Johannistorstrasse, which is the only one of the four leading from the town roads that has kept its medieval tightness.
Looking over the Söse one can see the St. Johannes Church and on the right the former protection facility the old castle.
We don't walk along the Söse but along the Eisensteinstrasse.
The impressive building of the grain magazine catches one eye immediately.
The grain supply was kept here n the past to provide the Oberharz with grain. Today it is used as the town's guildhall.
Past the grain magazine over the car-park along the backside of the building we reach the alley way into the Aegidienstrasse.
We follow it to the left and see at No. 1 the commandant's house. It used to be the town commandant's inn.
Immediately left of the commandant's house we go past the St. Aegidien-church and have reached the heart of Osterode the Kornmarkt (Grain Market)
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Source:
Manfred Wille
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