Starcke House

On the foundations of the Powder Tower from the 16th century, which was destroyed in 1809, the entre¬preneur couple Hödl built a winegrower’s cottage from 1825. The chapel-like building in neo-Gothic style with a conical tower made it possible to cultivate the newly laid out vineyard terraces and vegetable patches around the cottage. It was named after the actor and writer Gustav Starcke (1848 –1921) from Dresden (Germany), who was engaged at the State Theatre in Graz from 1873 to 1885. Until his death, he repeatedly used the cottage as a summer residence and creative location for his Schlossberg poetry. After that, the Starcke House housed the Schlossberg Museum in the 1920s. It has been used for hospitality purposes since 1997.