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Müntz House is a neo-classical house built in the 1st quarter of the 19th century (between 1807 and 1815) in Soultz-sous-Forêts, Lower Rhine. Sponsored by the imperial notary Müntz, a member of a family of notables established in the commune since 1776, it illustrates the influence of local elites under the Empire. Its architecture, perhaps attributed to architect Weinbrenner, combines brick and wood panel, with a wooden hanging staircase and a stone basement. The house is already on the cadastral plan of 1825.

The main building, on a square floor, is complemented by a wooden annex housing accommodation and a shed. The facades, roofs, fences, as well as the main stairway and pavement of the corridor were protected by an inscription to the historical monuments on 5 September 1996. Today owned by the commune, the house bears witness to the Alsatian bourgeois heritage of the early nineteenth century, marked by neo-classical influences and a functional spatial organization.

The building is part of the urban context of Soultz-sub-Forêts, a city where notable families, such as the Müntz, played a central role in the local administration and economy. The presence of an imperial notary as sponsor reflects the importance of the legal and administrative professions in the small Alsatian cities under Napoleon I. The house, by its style and conservation, offers a rare example of domestic architecture of this period in the region.

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