Webergasse 1, Renaissance residential building in Meissen, Germany

Webergasse 1, known as Alter Ritter, is a late 16th-century Renaissance townhouse in Meissen with a high gable roof and two dormers on the courtyard side. Its entrance hall has a pointed-ridge vault, and the great courtyard room retains a painted wooden beam ceiling from around 1700. The windows have chamfered and round-beaded surrounds, and the portal bears the date 1587.

Built at the end of the 16th century as the home of a wealthy citizen, the house was converted into a tenement in the 19th century, when its wall panelling and wooden ceilings were sold to Dresden and Berlin. From 1871 it served as an inn, named "Alter Ritter" from 1887. After standing largely empty around the Wende, it was secured and restored from spring 1991, when wall paintings of around 1620 were uncovered.

The painted wooden beam ceiling in the large courtyard-side hall, probably from the late 17th century, once showed allegories of the twelve months in painted frames; three are lost, so nine survive. Beneath this early Baroque ceiling the stencilled ceiling painting of the Renaissance is still visible.

The building is now open to visitors and features exhibitions about Renaissance architecture and local craftsmanship. It is best to visit during daylight hours to fully appreciate the ceiling paintings and architectural details indoors.

The wooden entrance door survives from the building period and has a separate small hatch door (Schlupftür) that opens on its own. The round arch above the doorway once carried the inscription "Wo einst die Ritter kehrten ein, schänkt man auch jetzo guten Wein", later painted over.