Kammerzell House
| Kammerzell House | |
|---|---|
Maison Kammerzell | |
 A photomechanical print from around 1900 | |
  Location within Strasbourg | |
| General information | |
| Location | Strasbourg, France |
| Address | Place de la Cathédrale |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 48°34′55″N 7°44′59″E / 48.58194°N 7.74972°E |
| Completed | 1427 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 |
The Kammerzell House (Alsatian: Kammerzellhüs, French: Maison Kammerzell, German: Kammerzellhaus) is one of the most famous buildings of Strasbourg and one of the most ornate and well preserved medieval civil housing buildings in late Gothic architecture in the areas formerly belonging to the Holy Roman Empire.
Built in 1427 but twice transformed in 1467 and 1589, the building as it is now historically belongs to the German Renaissance but is stylistically still attached to the Rhineland black and white timber-framed style of civil (as opposed to administrative, clerical or noble) architecture.
It is situated on the Place de la Cathédrale, north-west of the Strasbourg Cathedral, with whose rosy colour it contrasts in a picturesque way when seen from the opposite direction.
The building's inside has been decorated on all floors by lavish frescoes by Alsatian painter Léo Schnug (1878-1933). It now houses a restaurant.
Gallery[]
The building in 2015
External links[]
Media related to Kammerzell House at Wikimedia Commons
- Buildings and structures in Strasbourg
- Houses in France
- Medieval architecture
- Restaurants in Strasbourg
- Tourist attractions in Strasbourg
- Monuments historiques of Bas-Rhin
- Buildings and structures completed in 1427
- 1420s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire