On 11 March, 1613 a devastating fire had broken out in the court house to the Twente in Schweinestrasse 5, the current Marienstrasse. Because of a violent southwest wind the fire had spread to the wooden half-timbered houses, barns and stables of the old town at big speed.

Numerous town houses in Marien Street, Heger Street, Großer and Kleiner Gildewart, Bier and Turm Street, Marien's church and the city centre in the market as well as the Dominican's cloister, the Hasetor and the bishop's mill fell victims, completely burnt down.

Still today a board in the Marien's church lengthens the list of sufferers:

„Ao. 1613 d. 11. March, this church and tower, and 942 houses in this town are reduced to ashes by the will of the Lord..."

Die Frage, ob auch der Vorgängerbau des Hauses an der Bierstraße 24 dieser Brandkatastrophe zum Opfer fiel, lässt sich heute nicht mit Gewissheit klären. Auffallend allerdings ist, dass die Häuser an der Bierstraße 7,13,14,15,17 und 19 bereits kurz nach dem Stadtbrand neu entstanden.

Today the question whether also the predecessor's building of the hotel fell a victim in Bierstrasse 24 of this fire disaster cannot be clarified with certainty. Noticeably, however, is that the houses in Bierstrasse 7,13,14,15.17 and 19 were reconstructed already shortly after the city fire. Also the neighbouring house of “Walhalla" in the small Gildewart 11 was built in the year 1616. Has Meuschen demolished, because of disrepair, the old building that remained until about 1690 and was even more charming after the fire that had largely spread through the house; a building that originated from the year 1530 which was already since four generations in the possession of his family; and has he allowed a new construction to be built on its foundation walls? The heavy aerial bombardment from 13 September, 1944 brought for the hotel and restaurants their temporary from. The beautiful Old Town of Osnabrück sank in remains. The City hall and Marien's church, the cathedral towers and the Episcopal office, the gabled houses of the market, the splendid half-timbered gables of Bierstrasse, Große and Kleine Gildewart, the nobility courts in Hakenstrasse, the business quarter between Nikolaiort and the new market became a swag of the flames

Incendiary bombs also met the attic of the "Walhalla". However, thanks to the determined dedication of courageous house inhabitants the historical jewel could be saved. With the renovation of the Heger Tor quarter from the year 1974 to 1976 a new period of bloom of the Old Town of Osnabrück began. There were renovated not only houses and the Old Town was freshly decorated, but there also originated a quick-living city quarter with comfortable restaurants and Old Town bars, classical art shops, fashion boutiques, art dealer's shops and galleries. A new era began also for the "Walhalla" when in 1985 the businessman Günter David bought the houses in Bierstrasse 24 and in the small Gildewart 12, an original shed of the house in Bierstrasse.

From the year 1985 to 1986 all premises were thoroughly redeveloped, strictly following the existing conservation of monuments and historic buildings rules; in this time the accommodation enterprise relaxed. A hotel with 27 rooms originated in contemporary comfort. Hotel companies from Germany and foreign countries soon acknowledged the friendly hospitality in the homely historical frame and the room inquiry became bigger and bigger. Later in 1992 Günter David acquired possession of a 200 year-old house with garden in the Heger street 21 and another building in the small Gildewart 10 where originated the new buildings which today surround the atmospheric beer garden. The bed capacity was raised by originally 27 rooms on 66 rooms with 100 beds. In 1993 Günter Davids’ daughter Tanja Bernard took over the active managing. Since 1995 the hotel restaurant Walhalla is managed by her and her husband Andreas Bernard and on the basis of constant investments today Walhalla is a synonym of modern comfort in historic ambiance.