House of the Good Shepherd
Bratislava, Slovakia
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Located in Bratislava's Old Town below the castle, the House of the Good Shepherd is a narrow Rococo townhouse built between 1760 and 1765 by master-mason Matej Hollrigl for a local merchant. The structure exemplifies the style's ornamental elegance and is considered among Central Europe's finest Rococo buildings. Originally designed with commercial space on the ground floor and residential quarters above, it retains much of its original character—a rarity in the area due to twentieth-century demolitions of the surrounding Jewish quarter. Today it houses the Museum of Clocks on its upper floors, displaying seventeenth- to early twentieth-century timepieces with emphasis on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works by Bratislava clockmakers, while the ground floor and basement operate as a pub. The building takes its name from a statue of Christ as the Good Shepherd positioned at its corner.
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- Built
- Type
- house
- Heritage
- cultural heritage of Slovakia
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- Bratislava, Slovakia
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