Frenzelhof, Cultural heritage house on Untermarkt, Görlitz, Germany

Frenzelhof is a closed-style merchant house at number 5 Untermarkt in Görlitz, displaying typical features of medieval German trading residences. It contains Renaissance wooden ceilings, a private house chapel, and a storage chamber for valuables.

The plot was recorded in 1400 under the Schöppe Vincent Heller, whose patrician family also held the Landeskrone. Hans Frenzel married the daughter of owner Caspar Tilike in 1493 and inherited the dilapidated two-storey building in 1499; he rebuilt it for 1,100 Hungarian guilders, with stone facade and vaulting surviving the town fire of 1525. Between 1813 and 1835 the gable was demolished and the house re-roofed eaves-facing.

The house takes its name from Hans Frenzel, who inherited it in 1499 through his marriage to the daughter of Caspar Tilike and rebuilt it at a cost of 1100 Hungarian gulden. An earlier name for the brewery yard was Tempel, said to recall former ownership by the Knights Templar. A chapel-like room for Frenzel's private devotions, painted around 1510, survived into the mid-19th century and is still preserved.

Visitors can explore the interior and view the historical rooms, including the private chapel and storage chamber. The location functions partly as a hotel today, so access may vary depending on operating conditions.

The house contains a rare original chapel still visible and accessible, offering insight into the private religious life of wealthy merchants. Such private prayer rooms were uncommon in merchant houses of this period.