Market Place Einbeck

The marketplace in Einbeck originated as a medieval street market and is the nucleus of the city. With the town hall, market church, and many half-timbered houses from the 16th century, it still forms the center of the historic old town and continues to be used for weekly markets, the city festival, or seasonal markets.
After 1100, at the latest during the time of Henry the Lion, a narrow street market developed at this location with a civic settlement on a loess ridge south of the floodplain of the Krummes Wasser. Archaeologically, the first traces of settlement in the marketplace area have been proven to be utilitarian ceramics from the mid-12th century. In the immediate vicinity on the northern shore lay the already established Alexander Monastery from the 11th century, a place of pilgrimage. Directly east of the marketplace, there was a ford over the stream, known today as the Lange Brücke. To the west, via Tiedexer Straße and Tiedexer Tor, a medieval trade route led from the city to the passage at the landwehr near Klapperturm and further towards Solling. To the south, along Marktstraße, one could reach Göttingen through the Leinetal and continue to the upper German trade centers; to the north, a height path led over the Hube. For the traders, the marketplace was an ideal resting and stacking place. The origins of the first traders who settled permanently at the marketplace are unknown.

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