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thumb|Colour image of the historic facade of the Salzhaus (right) on the Römerberg square, around 1896. The Salzhaus ( Salt House) is a historic building in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. It forms the northeastern part of the Frankfurt City Hall complex (Römer), on the Römerberg square in the centre of the Altstadt (old town).

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Römer
Country
Germany
Image
Frankfurt Am Main-Roemer-Salzhaus von Nordosten-20110820.jpg
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Commons category
Salzhaus (Frankfurt am Main)
Commons gallery
Salzhaus (Frankfurt am Main)
street address
Römerberg 27
located on street
Römerberg
literal translation
salt house
time of earliest written record
1324-05-05

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  • Historic architecture
  • History
  • Destruction in the Second World War
  • Post-war building to the present
  • Possible reconstruction
  • Literature
  • Notes
  • External links

thumb|Colour image of the historic facade of the Salzhaus (right) on the Römerberg square, around 1896. The Salzhaus ( Salt House) is a historic building in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. It forms the northeastern part of the Frankfurt City Hall complex (Römer), on the Römerberg square in the centre of the Altstadt (old town).

The Salzhaus was originally built around 1600. It had a rich carved façade on the gable side, making it not only the most important artisan-produced civil building in the city, but also one of the greatest achievements of the Renaissance in the German-speaking world. This building was largely destroyed in Second World War by aerial bombing in March 1944. The base of the old building was preserved, but the floors above it were rebuilt in 1951/52 in a simple post-war architectural form. The reconstruction of the historic facade is still under discussion; it was considered in the 1980s along with a row of houses on the other side of the square (the Ostzeile) but was not carried out. Since then, the organisation Friends of Frankfurt has continued this discussion.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salzhaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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