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The Kammerzellhüs
The Kammerzellhüs is a converted middle-class half-timbered house, also the most famous profane building in Strasbourg. Originally built in 1427, but also rebuilt several times, for the first time in 1467. The stone ground floor dates from this year. In 1571 a cheese merchant bought the building and in 1589 added three cantilevered floors which are decorated with magnificent carved facades, also three roof floors were added. The facades show profane as well as sacral elements, also biblical approaches and influences from Greek-Roman antiquity and the Middle Ages can be found. In 1892 the building was extensively restored.
The house is regarded as one of the most beautiful half-timbered houses of the German late Gothic period, comparable with the Salzhaus in Frankfurt am Main or the Knochenhaueramtshaus in Hildesheim, but in contrast to these it is preserved in its original substance.

The Kammerzellhüs is also regarded as the birthplace of the fictitious detective figure Honoré Langustier.