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Today's address of the bathhouse first recorded in 1409 is 31, Stadtmauerstraße ('Wallstreet'). It is the oldest domestic structure still in use in Erlangen today. It was originally a single-story building, had three bathrooms and a bathing fountain, and, on account of being a high fire risk, was erected outside the town gates.

The bathhouse was run by a barber surgeon, who was due to pay 31 pennies rent per week to the town treasury. In 1704, a fire caused considerable damage to the bathhouse; it was spared, however, in the great town fire of 1706. Until 1720, the building was used as a bathhouse. Later on, it housed a tannery. The town wall passing close to the house today only dates back to the 18th century.

As we know from other towns, medieval bathhouses were usually steam baths. To generate steam, water was poured over hot stones taken from a furnace. From the end of the Middle Ages, bathtubs became more and more common.

Bathhouses, meanwhile, were not only used for personal hygiene, but also to obtain medical care, as well as being places for social interaction.