There is a lot to experience on this guided tour of the old town of Hattingen: the legendary "Horkenstein" tells of the early settlement of the region around Hattingen. The Synagogue Square is located in front of the historic city wall. The synagogue of the Jewish religious community stood here until 1938. The smallest half-timbered house in Hattingen's old town stands on a stump of the medieval city fortifications. A dense half-timbered building was once attached to the reformed St. John's Church, which was destroyed in 1945. The arcade-lined square tells us a lot about medieval shopkeepers and what the city's wine house has to do with my early contracts. On the Obermarkt, one of the liveliest squares in the area of the historic old town, the Treidelbrunnen commemorates the first economic boom due to the navigability of the Ruhr. The Old Town Hall was built in 1576 above the butchers' guild hall and tells us about the city's early economic boom.