Koszeg - Jurisics tér

The last of the row of houses, Ambrózy House, is a solid, fortress-like edifice with two fronts facing the street. It was built in Late Renaissance style c 1560 by merging two or three existing houses; Baroque additions were made in the 18th C. The side looking onto the courtyard boasts a loggia with Tuscan pillars and graffito decoration.

To the right behind Heroes' Gate, lies "Arcade House", built in 1774, with arcades in front of it at ground level; the town musician Josef Bittner had it built as a tennis court. The most attractive part of the front of the house is the architrave above the keystone, built in the 18th C plait style and adorned with rosettes and a garland.

The 16th C Renaissance house (Batthyány House) was converted to Early Baroque two centuries later. The entrance door is arched and the double-doors are decorated with carved geometric patterns.

A medieval town house was converted to a Jesuit monastery, and the monks ran it as a pharmacy. When the order of monks was dissolved in 1777 the chemist Mátyás Svalla bought the house together with the Baroque fittings and furnishings which had been installed c 1740 by the Jesuit monks, and formed the town pharmacy known as "The Golden Unicorn". The pharmaceutical museum also contains some turned wooden crucibles and lead-glazed earthenware vessels.

Graffito House, dating from the 16th C, is lavishly decorated by the graffito process, which involved scratching through the plaster to show the different-colored under-surface. This process had then only recently been imported from Italy. Under the roof can be seen a Latin inscription which is a quotation from a Letter of St Paul the Apostle to the Romans, an indication that at one time the house was used as a presbytery.

The Tábornokház, a 17th C Renaissance building immediately to the left behind Heroes' Gate, was where the captain of the town's cavalry forces had his quarters. A twin-arched loggia adorns the front. The house is now the Jurisics Museum, displaying examples of local handicrafts; from the museum tower there is a pleasant view of the square and the Old Town.

This building dates originally from the 14th/15th C, and is also known as "Lada House" after a former owner. It has been renovated on several occasions and now boasts a superbly stuccoed Baroque façade.

The convoluted Baroque Lady Column in the center of Jurisics tér dates from 1739 and is the work of the Sopron stonemason Lorenz Eysenkölbl; he was paid by means of fines which the town imposed on Protestants who opposed Mariolatry. Eysenkölbl was also responsible for the Town Fountain; this eventually suffered from over-use and so in 1766 was enclosed within the 18th C plait style pump room we see today.