Maison des Têtes (House of Heads)

THE HEAD HOUSE, Colmar
The bourgeois house was built in 1609 in the Rhenish Renaissance style and owes its name to the unusual decoration of 105 grotesque masks. A magnificent two-storey bay window with a balcony above adorns the façade, which is irregularly punctuated by windows with carved pillars. At the very top of the curved gable stands a bronze Alsatian cooper, created by Auguste Bartholdi. It is a reminder that the house was once used as a wine exchange.
Text / Source: Tourist Office of Colmar and its region, Place Unterlinden, 68000 COLMAR - FRANCE
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Historic house, which has countless heads on the facade, some of which are distorted into grimaces... in the courtyard there is a nice restaurant

Built in 1609 for the merchant Anton Burger, the House of Heads is attributed to the architect Albert Schmidt, also author of the former Protestant presbytery and the house known as the Knights of Saint John. The House of the Heads, a beautiful building of the German Renaissance, owes its name to one hundred and six grotesque heads or masks adorning a rich facade on which stands a three-storey oriel.

Erbaut im Jahre 1609 im Auftrag of the Kaufmannes Anton Burger, wird das Kopfhaus dem Architekten Albert Schmidt zugeschrieben, der ebenso das alte Protestantische Pfarrhaus und das Haus, das nach dem Ritter St. John benannt ist, plant. Das Kopfhaus, ein schöner Bau der deutschen Renaissance, hat seinen Namen durch die 106 Köpfe oder grotesken Masken, die die reiche Fassade schmücken, auf der sich ein dreistöckiger Erker erhebt.
(What: Colmar tourism <tourisme-colmar.com>)