This tiny house was built in 1270. Since then it has been occupied by at least 11 different craftsmen....coopers, dyers, weavers, shoemakers, tinkers, potters, basket makers, soap makers, plasterers, pewtersmiths and bricklayers. Hence its name.
A hermit lived in the house later at a time when many other houses were being modernized and changed inside. This is the reason that no other house in Rothenburg has so much historical character and remains unchanged today. The hermit did not need electricity and running water....a deep well is nearby. He kept the unbelievably low ceilings that were suitable for the small people of past centuries, whose average height was around five feet. The house is now a museum and contains eleven rooms furnished as the craftmens' families would have lived.