Eulenspiegelhaus, Timber-framed house site in Altstadt, Braunschweig, Germany

The Eulenspiegelhaus stood at Bäckerklint 11 in Braunschweig's Altstadt, in the so-called "Flohwinkel". It was a two-storey, gable-roofed timber-framed house, six windows wide, with the insurance numbers 875 and 876, on the east side of Bäckerklint. Its colourless plaster made it look plain, but from the second half of the 19th century tourists took notice. Destroyed in the bombing of 15 October 1944, it was not rebuilt; the present building on the plot dates from 1977/78.

Mathias Angerstein had a new timber-framed house built on the Bäckerklint site around 1630, marked with his initials M.A. It stood on the east side of the street, six windows wide and two storeys high, until bombing on 15 October 1944 destroyed it completely; it was never rebuilt. The plot today holds a building from 1977/78.

The building is named after Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary trickster whose pranks are deeply rooted in local memory. The wooden statue on the south side depicts this character and keeps alive the traditional stories connected to this place.

The site is at Bäckerklint 11 in the Altstadt, on the east side of the street; the original timber house was destroyed in the bombing of 15 October 1944 and not rebuilt. The present building on the plot dates from 1977/78. The Eulenspiegelbrunnen, erected in 1906, stands on the small square in front of it.

The ground-floor bakery baked bread in the shapes of owls and monkeys ("Eulen und Meerkatzen") until the building was destroyed in the Second World War; around 1939 it sold up to 300 of them a day. Some Braunschweig bakers still sell the pastries today.