Restaurant Maison Des Tanneurs - Gerwerstub

This guide to the Maison des Tanneurs in Strasbourg's Petite France traces the half-timbered building's start around 1572 as a tannery, likely raised by Christmann Roederer beside the canal so workers could haul water straight from the Ill. It walks through the grim work once done inside, and the open galleries under the roofline that served as drying racks for hides, not the view they offer today. You'll hear how the building nearly came down in 1913, saved at the last moment by local heritage defenders, before a group of winegrowers sealed the old drying floor behind glass in 1949. Look up at those galleries, built long before anyone thought to dine behind them.