Unschlitthaus, Gothic building in St. Lorenz district, Nuremberg, Germany.

The Unschlitthaus stands on the east side of Unschlittplatz in Nuremberg's St. Lorenz old town. Hans Beheim the Elder built it in 1491 as a massive sandstone structure with an intricate Gothic portal and a pierced stepped gable. Its four-storey roof space was ventilated by 76 roof hatches. The south part was destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt; the north part, including the roof structure, survives in its original state.

Hans Beheim the Elder built the Unschlitthaus in 1491 as one of seven municipal granaries, raising it inside the filled-in moat of Nuremberg's previous city wall and incorporating the eastern moat wall. From 1562 to 1835 its ground floor housed the Unschlittamt, the city monopoly to which butchers had to sell waste fat. It later served as a school and weights and measures office from 1839 to 1899, then as the municipal pawnshop. An RAF raid on 2 January 1945 destroyed the south part, which was rebuilt; the north part and its roof frame survive in original condition.

The building takes its name from the Unschlittamt, the municipal tallow monopoly housed on the ground floor from 1562 to 1835. Every butcher in Nuremberg had to sell waste fat here, which was processed into tallow candles, soap, wagon grease and shoe polish. On the west side, a wall fountain with a bronze head of the Hieserlein pours water from the youth's open mouth.

The Unschlitthaus stands on the east side of Unschlittplatz in the Lorenzer Altstadt. The square is reached on foot from the main market square, and the building is a station on Nuremberg's Historische Meile route. The corner of the facade carries street signs for Hutergasse and Milchgasse, which help with orientation.

The Unschlitthaus was built into the filled-in city moat of Nuremberg's second-to-last fortification, and the eastern moat wall was incorporated into its structure. Its four-storey roof frame has 76 roof hatches that ventilated the grain floors.