Rathaus

The ancient town hall of Münster in Westfalen, Germany is located at the Prinzipalmarkt – the most beautiful street of the city. It is one of the most important landmarks of the city and a wonderful gabled house in gothic style dating back to the year 1170 CE. But this can’t really be proved as all documents about the city where wrecked in the 1530s during the time of the Münster rebellion.

The historic town hall is an important building because of the Peace of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years’ War in 1648 and was negotiated at Münster and Osnabrück. This also of importance for our Dutch an Swiss friends as it also meant an end to the Spanish-Dutch war and Switzerland officially leaving the Holy Roman Empire. It was intended to declare the town hall a UNESCO world heritage site – but that didn’t happen until today.

Historisches Rathaus
Prinzipalmarkt 10
48143 Münster in Westfalen
Germany