the middle and end point of each of the street connections in the town is the marketplace, over which rises the town church, st. marien, once surrounded by the town's cemetery. a regular plan is not to be seen in the town. however, in one way the town has something in common with many other towns founded in the middle ages that is only noticeable at second glance: when laying out the town's streets, the mediaeval town planner deliberately made them crooked and deliberately staggered intersections of streets and alleyways. in particular, building crooked streets was a way of giving them some aesthetic appeal, as with the "untergasse". crookedness limits the streetscape optically, and at the end of the street is a t-junction, with a view of houses opposite. in the "untergasse", this was the town's former brewhouse, standing on the corner of the "untergasse" ("lower lane") and the "entengasse" ("duck lane"). the "untergasse's" original alignment was lost as a result of town renovations. it can now only be discerned by looking at houses' positions or by looking over the town.