27 market

The finds from the excavations on the market date back to the
stone age. There is evidence of a Bronze Age settlement and a large Slavic settlement.
Excavated medieval cellars testify: The medieval market was rectangular like in many medieval towns. After the town fire in 1758, however, a number of houses were not rebuilt. It was only then that the Anger-shaped square that we have today was created. Until 1806, the garrison cavalrymen drilled on the new square. 

One of the excavated foundations tells of a medieval department store. Another floor plan may have included a glazier's shop that produced high-quality painted glass panes. A Madonna's head was also found in one of the houses - the head of a Madonna or a saint from the
16th century made of pipe clay. It probably belonged to a private house altar or was a souvenir from a pilgrimage.

With the construction of the new (today's) town hall in 1854, the square finally got its current appearance. The war memorial erected after 1871 was surrounded by a small green area, which was gradually developed into a triangle. In 1931 a second war memorial was erected to commemorate those who died in World War I. After 1945 the first memorial was torn down and the second re-inscribed: "To honor the dead - as a reminder to the living". In the 1960s, the triangular green space was adorned with a fountain, which the people of Wusterhausen affectionately called the "Compote Bowl". With the redesign in 2009, a new fountain was created and the market was designed as a free space for festivals, with the names of the 22 districts of the municipality of Wusterhausen/Dosse embedded in the pavement.

The tour ends here. (For now - more themed tours will follow)