Editing Lemgo (section)

===Historical buildings===
==== Hexenbürgermeisterhaus ====
[[File: Lemgo Hexenbuergermeisterhaus01.jpg | thumb|Hexenbürgermeisterhaus]]
The most famous house in Lemgo is the so-called Hexenbürgermeisterhaus from 1571 with a facade in the style of [[Weser Renaissance]]. Its unusual name comes from its mayor Cothmann, who officiated in the 17th century, who, out of lust for power, used the antagonism against witchcraft - an integral part of the Christian faith - to clear his political opponents out of the field. To make this clear, he had several dozen other citizens killed, both women and men. On the façade below there is a wide, richly-perforated zone of stems called 'Utluchten', a term also rarely used in specialist literature. The most typical examples were Renaissance stone buildings and half-timbered building from the 17th and 18th centuries. On the right part of the facade is a bay window on consoles. The facade above is divided by half-columns and cornices.

==== Town hall ====
[[File: LemgoRathaus.jpg | thumb|Town Hall of Lemgo]]
The town hall in the style of the Weser Renaissance, which was included in the [[UNESCO]] list of works of European renown, consists of parts built at different times. Such a genesis is not uncommon for large secular buildings such as town halls, because of the growing number of inhabitants and the increasing administrative activity of the cities, more and more premises were needed. Instead of new buildings, the neighboring houses were bought and extended the town hall.
The oldest part is an elongated hall building dating back to the 13th century. The middle part of the building is built in Gothic [Gothic] style and dates from around 1480 to 1490. It houses the Council Chamber, including the Court Arbor. Such open ground floors belong mostly to medieval town halls, because there took place the public court hearings.
Such open ground floors belong mostly to medieval town halls, because there took place the public court hearings.
The most recent members of the Weser Renaissance are from the 15th and 16th centuries. The Apothecary's Corner is a showpiece with equally strict and playful language of form. Similarly in the execution is the council foliage with the Kornherrenstube upstairs on the north side of the town hall. The construction of the Neue Ratsstube is simpler and sums up the market façade of the building symmetrically with the Apothekererker.

==== Brake Castle ====
[[File: Schloss Brake - Luftaufnahme.JPG | thumb|Brake Castle]]
The Brake Castle is an important architectural monument, whose architectural history reaches from the 12th to the 19th century. The present state of the castle is the result of renovations and extensions. After 1190, [[Bernard II, Lord of Lippe|Lord Bernhard II of Lippe]] had built a stone castle. Their dimensions were similar to those of today's castle. In 1306 "castrum brac" was first mentioned. It was the preferred seat of the noble lords (from 1528 counts) of Lippe.
In 1587 it was extended as a residence of the counts of Lippe in the style of the renaissance. It is surrounded by a moat and stands on the foundation walls of one of the largest medieval castles in Northern Germany. The striking tower makes it the widely visible landmark of the old Hanseatic town Lemgo. The buildings in the immediate vicinity of the castle still convey an impressive picture of an early-modern residence, which includes the domain, three historic mills and a wash house.

==== Other historical town houses ====
[[File: Lemgo Giebel Altes Backhaus.jpg | thumb|Old Bakery house, Echternstraße 92]]
In the historic city center a number of merchants' houses from late gothic and renaissance have survived. Here you will find half-timbered and stone houses with ornate gables, for example the "Neustädter Twins" and the former Adlerhof. Architectural research has shown that the houses Mittelstraße 54 and 56 (near the market square) have even more parts of the building from the 13th century on their back fronts and thus the rare case from the early Gothic period (Mittelstraße 54, dated to the second Half of the 13th century) or the late [[Romanesque art]] (house Mittelstraße 56, based on the arched windows dated to the first half of the 13th century) originate from prof cultivation.
In Mittelstraße, which is the [[pedestrian zone]] designated shopping street in the historical city center, are the most important town houses of the city. In addition, there are hundreds of smaller half-timbered houses from the 15th to the 19th century, especially in the old town.