Brauner Hirsch, Baroque town house on Untermarkt, Görlitz, Germany

Brauner Hirsch is a Baroque town house on Untermarkt in Görlitz with a complex internal structure spanning multiple functional areas. The building originally housed brewing operations, living quarters, assembly halls, and educational facilities within its walls.

The predecessor building was largely destroyed in the town fire of 1717; the present house took its Baroque form in 1722 under Johann Christoph Pößner, remembered by a stone on the market side. Six keystones on the three Gothic arcades facing the market carry the dates 1486 and 1539 with house marks. Owners included mayor Seifrid Goswin around 1475 and town clerk Georg Voit around 1490.

The house sign shows a brown stag at the corner, added only under the owner Ulrich Domke, after the building had already been called Brauner Hirsch (formerly Roter Hirsch). From 1779 the Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften met here until moving to the Neues Kaufhaus in 1792. Six keystones on the three Gothic arcades facing the market carry the dates 1486 and 1539 with house marks.

The location sits in the old town of Görlitz and is easily reached on foot from Untermarkt. Visitors should know that opening hours vary depending on events and the season.

In summer 2009 scenes for the film Goethe! were shot here; Goethe himself is thought to have dined at the Brauner Hirsch during his visit on 31 July 1790. The house also served as the monastery set in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, filmed in 2013.