Reuterhaus, Architectural heritage monument in Wismar, Germany.

Reuterhaus is a two-storey building at Am Markt 19, opposite the Wasserkunst, owned by the St. Marien parish. It began as a double house with two dwellings under one gable, like the Alte Schwede nearby. After a fire in 1712 it was rebuilt in late Baroque style with a hipped roof and its former bay window. A gable sculpture by Rainer Kessel shows publisher Hinstorff with the poet Fritz Reuter.

The two-storey house belonged to the St. Marien parish and was originally a double dwelling with two apartments under one gable, like the Alte Schwede nearby. After a fire in 1712 it was rebuilt in late Baroque form with a hipped roof and its former bay window. In 1850 the Mecklenburg publisher Dethloff Carl Hinstorff opened his first publishing bookshop here, and in 1858 or 1859 Fritz Reuter signed his first publishing contract in the building. The house survived the Second World War, but after nationalisation it decayed and was completely dismantled in 1988, then reconstructed almost unchanged on the outside.

The name comes from Fritz Reuter, who signed his first publishing contract here in 1858 or 1859 with publisher Dethloff Carl Hinstorff for the Low German stories Läuschen un Rimels. From 1911 the building housed an Altdeutsche Gaststätte called Reuterhaus. A gable sculpture by Rainer Kessel shows Hinstorff together with Reuter.

The building sits centrally on Wismar's market square and is easy to reach on foot. You can admire its architecture from the street, and the area provides plenty of space to walk around and explore nearby streets.

The gable sculpture by Rainer Kessel shows publisher Hinstorff together with the poet Fritz Reuter. The building was completely dismantled in 1988 and then rebuilt almost unchanged, so the present structure is a late 20th-century reconstruction of the late Baroque house.