Baumannsches Haus, Timber-framed house in Eppingen, Germany.

Baumannsches Haus is a two-storey timber-framed house at Kirchgasse 31, built in 1582/83 in Franconian style on a sandstone ground floor. Its two projecting upper storeys and three gable storeys carry carved oak beams with framed corner window groups, grimacing faces, oak leaves, scale patterns and rosettes. The house stands in Eppingen's old town, not on the market square.

The house was built in 1582/83 in Franconian timber-frame style from carved oak beams on a sandstone ground floor. The butcher and cattle dealer Hans Ziemer is considered its builder. In 1913 the city of Eppingen acquired the dilapidated building, renovated it and used it from 1914 as housing for municipal officials. In 1934 it became a youth hostel, and in the late war years it housed employees of Knoll AG, relocated from Ludwigshafen in 1944.

The house stands at Kirchgasse 31, not on the market square. Its carved oak beams include framed corner window groups and motifs such as grimaces, oak leaves, scale patterns and rosettes. Several Neidköpfe (envy heads) are worked into the stone base and timber frame, among them a lion's face with a ring in its mouth and a bearded man's head on a corner post.

The house stands at Kirchgasse 31, not on the market square, in Eppingen's old town. The carved corner post with the bearded head and the stone lion mask with ring are best seen from street level at the corner of Kirchgasse and Altstadtstraße. The facade is viewable from the public street; the interior Renaissance rooms are not generally open.

Look up at the corner facing Altstadtstraße: a stone lion's face with a closed mouth and a ring hangs in the pointed upper corner of the sandstone base, with the date 158(?) cut beneath it. On the timber corner post above, a console is carved as a bearded man's head. Three more heads sit in the window lintel over the door.