Sterneckerstraße 2, Medieval town house and heritage monument in Munich, Germany.

The house at Sterneckerstraße 2 is a four-storey building on the street side with a tall saddle roof extending over three further storeys. Its facade has five window axes with cross-mullioned windows and a block-pattern painting reconstructed from historical evidence. Inside, a 43-step stair known as a Himmelsleiter, about 500 years old, spans four storeys.

The oldest part of the building, in the northwest corner of the plot, dates to the mid-14th century: a ceiling board was dendrochronologically dated to 1346. That section was originally a storage building, with a wooden dwelling house in the northeast corner and a courtyard between them. Around 1570 the complex was rebuilt and extended, and around 1595 it was raised by two storeys. A full renovation from 1993 included building-history studies that revealed how the parts were assembled.

The building now houses a museum dedicated to Munich's brewing heritage and Oktoberfest celebrations. Visitors can see objects and documents that reveal how deeply beer is woven into the city's identity.

The house stands at the south end of Sterneckerstraße, where it juts slightly out of the building line, in the triangle between Isartor, Viktualienmarkt and Marienplatz. Inside, a 43-step stair, the so-called Himmelsleiter, links all four floors; the Museumsstüberl tavern occupies the ground floor.

The interior is reached by a so-called Himmelsleiter, a 43-step wooden staircase spanning four floors and roughly 500 years old. Dendrochronology dated a ceiling plank in the northwest corner to 1346, when that part served as a storage building.