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Building of the Old Swede
Today the building is used as a restaurant.© Hansestadt Wismar, Norbert Wiaterek

Detailed view of the building Old Swede
© Hansestadt Wismar, Norbert Wiaterek

Description

On the east side of the market square is one of the city's oldest town houses. The brick facade of the house, built around 1380, is one of the most valuable and last late Gothic gabled house facades in the city. The building was only given the popular name “Alter Schwede” (Old Swede), which is intended to remind us of the Swedish era in Wismar, much later, when an inn under that name moved into the building in the 19th century. The name has stuck, and today there is also a restaurant in the historic rooms of the “Alter Schwede”.

POIs

[1] World-Heritage-House
[2] Holy Spirit Church
[3] Fürstenhof
[4] St. George Church
[5] St. Mary Tower
[6] Archdeaconry
[7] Wasserkunst
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[9] Town hall and market square
[10] Zum Weinberg - To the vineyard
[11] Karstadt flagship store and Krämerstraße
[12] Schabbell-House & Museum
[13] St. Nikolai Church
[14] Linden garden
[15] The Pit (Watercourse through the Old Town)
[16] Lohberg
[17] Scheuerstraße
[18] Brewery at the Lohberg
[19] Water gate
[20] Tree house
[21] The armory Wismar
[22] Wismar World Heritage Nature Trail
[23] Wismar pier in the seaside resort Wendorf