Holiday Country Austria - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2003 - 55 Euro Cent

For the Eisenstadt Steyr, the late Gothic town houses are particularly striking. Brand designer Adolf Tuma has drawn two of them rather unobtrusively stylized in order to show how beautiful they are. The most famous of these buildings, the richly decorated Bummerlhaus, was already shown in 1953 on a special stamp from the series for the reconstruction of the Evangelical School at Vienna's Karlsplatz. Due to the lively trade relations with Germany, Steyr was particularly open to Protestantism. In the Counter-Reformation Steyr lost all his Messerer, because they raised in Solingen the famous knife industry. The name "Bummerlhaus" came from a pub sign. It showed a lion, but more like a fat dog, to which one said "Bummerl". The characteristic houses of the city center of Steyr are mostly three-storied and have arcade courts, which can extend also over two plots, in order to reach more light incidence. Towards the street, they almost always show a Baroque or Rococo façade. Steyr was particularly fortunate that despite the occasionally very stormy development of his industry, despite a major city fire in 1727 and many bomb attacks in the last war - everything could have aroused desire for a redesign - you always considered at all times consistently on the preservation of the traditional cityscape ,