Haus Zum Breiten Herd, Erfurt

Pretty house at the fish market.

Beautiful decorative specialist work

The Haus zum Breiten Herd is a Renaissance town house on the northern edge of the fish market (number 13) in the old town of Erfurt. It is one of the most magnificent and famous Renaissance buildings in the city.
The Haus zum Breiten Herd was built in 1584 on the orders of the city governor and councilor Heinrich von Denstedt. Hidden behind the house is a baroque summer house with a hall on the property; this was built in 1727 by the then owner, the Braunschweig ambassador, Privy Councillor Christoph Schulze. In 1734 the house was combined with the former neighboring house "Zum Stötzel" when the von Münchhausen family from Herrengosserstedt bought it. During the Erfurt Congress of Princes in 1808, Friedrich August I of Saxony lived in the house; Napoleon paid him a ceremonial visit here with his marshals.