The Haus zum Breiten Herd was built in 1584 on behalf of the city bailiff and councilor Heinrich von Denstedt . Hidden behind the house is a baroque summer house with a hall on the property; this was built in 1727 by the then owner, the Brunswick envoy, Privy Councilor Christoph Schulze. In 1734 the house was combined with the former neighboring house "Zum Stötzel" when the von Münchhausen family from Herrengosserstedt bought it. During the Erfurt Congress of Princes in 1808, Friedrich August I of Saxony lived in the house; Napoleon paid him a solemn visit here with his marshals.The polychrome Renaissance façade design was reconstructed in 1968. On the first floor of the façade there are personified representations of the five senses, which were designed according to models by Frans Floris from Antwerp . The city of Erfurt is shown in the background of the depiction of "smelling". There are gaff heads in the pediments of the windows of the upper floors . On the top of the house is a figure that embodies a lansquenet . The facade decorations were made in the workshop of Hans Friedemann the Elder.