Schwab writes:A narrow alley leads in front of the basement of the town hall, The surfaces of the basement show carving in sublime work, and the door bears the city coat of arms - a wall anchor. A large cup beckons above the entrance, and in the snug corners of the guest room, a cross vault dimly lit by colorful windows, it is good to dream.Info:- The entrance to the Ratshauskeller was in the annex. Directly to the left of it, was the entrance to the police station. Today entrance Halberstädter baker.Schwab describes two other buildings left and right of the crab shears. Today the entrance to the town hall passage.Schwab writes:From here the view wanders to the opposite Winkler'schen house and the Ratskeller (Holzmarkt 24), one of the oldest professional buildings of Halberstadt (from the year 1461). Both show the typical slanted filler timbers and the rich ornamentation of figures as bearers of the beam heads and many kinds of ornaments created in painstaking detail. The year of construction and restoration are also faithfully recorded; the carving of the neighboring house is also preserved. The art of half-timbering, which owes its origin to the Gothic period, gave Halberstadt the most valuable buildings full of splendid character, is excellently preserved in these houses. The artistic sensibility of the 15th and 16th centuries could not be satisfied by the straight and bare rising street front of the houses and so everyone sought to make his house more valuable according to his taste. It happened this in the first place by the superstructure - one planted with a each time protrusion always the floors on the other - but then also by the art of wood carving, and this has then also in Halberstadt the most beautiful blossoms gezeitigt..