Gutmann Palace

Gutmann-palota

Classicist styled merchant house. A U-shaped, one-story monument building with gable-roof. It was built around 1820. The street facade of it is closed with a triangular tympanum in middle part. In the central axis is an arched high, stone-framed gate with curb-stones so typical of merchant houses. The facade is decorated in fine simplicity. The hanging corridor of the courtyard facade leaning consoles. The ground-floor rooms ceilings are arched. The doorway part is arched and connecting to a three-arm staircase. The south wing of the main building later built to the original L-shaped building. In the second half of the 19th century this was the Gutmann merchant family residential house which was also the business headquarters of the company, office and warehouse. The Gutmann family was famous all over Europe for their forest products. From 1952 to 2000 here was one of the departments of the György Thury Museum.

• museum
• outdoors
• history
• family

Address

Erzsébet tér 11