Wedekindhaus, Timber-framed Renaissance house at Market Square, Hildesheim, Germany.

The Wedekindhaus is a Renaissance timber-framed house on the market square of Hildesheim, featuring three front gables and a detailed timber framework on its southern side. Several transverse gables give the building a layered roofline that stands out among the surrounding structures.

Hans Storre, a merchant from the Hildesheim patrician family Storre, built the house in 1598 as a residence and business premises, diagonally opposite the town hall. The name of a later owner, Wedekind, largely replaced that of the builder as the house name. A major renovation followed in 1900, after which municipal offices and later Sparkasse business rooms occupied the building. The air raid of 22 March 1945 totally destroyed it; a plain Sparkasse building by Diez Brandi followed in 1950, replaced in 1983 by the second postwar building erected 1984 to 1986.

The carved figures on the facade represent virtues such as justice, faith, and patience, which were seen as foundations of civic life in Renaissance times. Wealthy merchants used such imagery to signal their social standing to anyone passing through the market square.

The building is easy to find at the center of the market square, where it now houses a bank branch. The carved facade and timber details are fully visible from the open square, so no entry is needed to take in the exterior.

The reconstructed facade hides a single connected building: the headquarters of Sparkasse Hildesheim Goslar Peine, which runs behind the fronts of the Wedekindhaus, the Lüntzelhaus and the Rolandstift at Rathausstraße 21–23. The house owes its name not to its builder Hans Storre but to a later owner, Wedekind.