Where does the name come from?
In this building, which is located in the street Vetrinjska ulica and today houses the seat of the Association of Engineers and Technicians, stands the Salzburg mansion. It was built in the middle of the 14th century, so it is basically medieval. It got its present design in the 17th century and frontage about the year 1725. The Archdiocese of Salzburg administration ran their estates in and around town from here, right up to the beginning of the 18th century.
The most beautiful Baroque mansion in Maribor
The building is the most beautiful Baroque mansion in Maribor with wonderful stucco on the ground floor and a strap ornamental frontage. In the 18th century the mansion represented a meeting place for Maribor’s high society, from the year 1834 to 1864 it was the seat of the German reading society – a bourgeois casino. With the construction of the department store Merkur and the offices of the Večer newspaper the mansion lost its courtyard.