Sobre este lugar
Herrengasse, the Street of the Lords, has been the main axis of Graz since the Middle Ages, a broad cobbled boulevard of Baroque facades, painted houses, and shaded arcades running from the Hauptplatz toward Jakominiplatz. At number 16 stands the Landhaus, the most important secular Renaissance building in the city, begun in 1557 by the Italian master Domenico dell'Allio for the estates of Styria. Its serene three-storey arcaded courtyard, with a Mannerist bronze fountain and the great armoury of the Landeszeughaus next door, has been the seat of provincial power for over four centuries and still houses the Styrian parliament. Yet this same street carried a quieter history. Around Herrengasse lay the heart of Graz's Jewish life, a community of merchants, doctors, and lawyers numbering close to two thousand by the 1930s. After the Anschluss of 1938 their shops along these arcades were marked, boycotted, and seized in the so-called Aryanisation, and on the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 their synagogue across the Mur was set ablaze. Today small brass Stolpersteine set into the pavement mark the doorsteps from which Graz's Jewish neighbours were driven, deported, or forced to flee, turning this elegant promenade into a place of remembrance.
Datos clave
- 1557 year — Construction of the Renaissance Landhaus began under Italian architect Domenico dell'Allio
- 3 storeys — Arcaded levels ring the Landhaus courtyard, one of Europe's finest Renaissance arcaded courts
- 9600 bricks — Original bricks of the synagogue burned in 1938 were cleaned and reused in the rebuilt synagogue across the Mur
📍 Herrengasse 16, 8010, Graz