This is what made Dortmund rich to this day. Westenhellweg: Tour including a drink

We begin our walk on the 3,000-year-old Westenhellweg, which was a trade route from the Meuse to the Memel and was also used for salt production. We then walk to the Freistuhl, which has appeared in Dortmund's historical sources for 1,000 years. From here, we continue to the KrügerPassage, where stock exchange activities took place and many events were held until 1943.
Via Kampstrasse, we circle the venerable Protestant St. Reinoldikirche church. Here, the guide can tell you a lot about Dortmund's financial and commercial history, and if the church is open, you can also see some of it. The beginnings of the Brückviertel district in front of us date back to the time of Charlemagne (768-814). Only the name has been preserved from the Burgtor, the nearby royal court. We read the place name Gnadenort. An older name from 1610 is "Quaden Ort" or "Quaemort." This means something like "evil, swampy, gloomy, terrible place."
Thanks to its favorable location at the intersection of Hellweg and a major north-south trade route, Brückstraße was already Dortmund's main thoroughfare in the 9th century. The street market that had been held there moved to the market square on Trisselgasse, now known as Alter Markt, due to lack of space. Dortmund was confronted with the problem that all the roads were often flooded, so "bridges" and beams were laid to allow the merchants' carts to pass. The Balkenstraße was first mentioned by name in 1342 as "Lohus (Lohhaus) subter Trabes" (under the beams), and at the end of the 14th century, in addition to the name "Balkenstrate," it was also called "Gruetstrate." This name was derived from the Grüttehaus, the council brewery opposite. The Balkenstraße used to be a log dam for merchants' carts, hence the name Balkenstraße. The name Dortmund means "Throtmanni": settlement on the gurgling water.
Our walking tour ends at the old market on Trisselgasse: minor crimes and fraud during market trading were visibly ostracized here: the cheating market trader was "getrieselt," meaning he was put in a visible cage, the Trissel.