Road of Weser Renaissance

The Road of Weser Renaissance (German: Straße der Weserrenaissance) is a well-known tourist route in North Germany.

As a cultural route it links famous architectural monuments of the Weser Renaissance period in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

The road runs through the German federal states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen.

In fact, the Renaissance buildings in the Weser region show evidence of the existing Europe-wide links in the field of architecture.

Some of the most striking of the many sights along this route are the castles of Hämelschenburg, Bückeburg, Detmold, Brake, Neuhaus, Bevern, Stadthagen, Celle and Hann.