Hubertus-Schlössl

The Hubertus-Schlössl is an old country house standing on the Rosenberg hill in Graz’s third district, Geidorf. It first appeared as a grand building around 1590, built by the lawyer Sebald Stäntzing or soon after by the city councillor Daniel Höfner. By 1800 the house belonged to Franz Klingenstein, who ran up so many debts that in 1806 it was sold off under court order to Josef Piller. From about 1828 the physician Johann Evangelist Stiger owned the place, then his granddaughter Anna Wunder and her family, who in 1906 sold it to Eduard Hübl von Stollenbach. It was this last owner who gave the house its present name, Hubertus-Schlössl. Inside, two Rococo ceilings with shell motifs date from 1745–50 and still show the Eye of Providence. The wrought-iron gate leaves bear the date 1778, and the matching stair rail comes from the third quarter of the same century. Upstairs the main rooms keep their original timber ceilings with moulded beams. In the late 19th century and again in 1904 two wings were added to the old structure, enlarging the living space. Today the house sits among tall trees on a quiet side street. Its white walls and red-tiled roof give it a calm, almost rural air despite being inside the city. The surviving historic interiors with their plasterwork and ironwork offer a glimpse of how a well-to-do Graz family once lived.