Monument · Schlossberg, Graz, Styria
Graz Clock Tower
Grazer Uhrturm
The Clock Tower (Uhrturm) is the former fortress tower on the Schlossberg above Graz's old town, with a wooden gallery, three bells and a clock whose large hands show the hours.
Why go
Graz Tourismus says a tower on this spot of the Schlossberg was first mentioned in the 13th century and took its present shape around 1560, when the fortress was rebuilt, including the wooden gallery once used by the fire watch. The clockwork made by Michael Sylvester Funck in 1712 still runs, driven electrically since the mid-20th century, and the hands are swapped: the large hand shows the hours and the small one the minutes. Three bells hang on it; a bell of 1385 strikes the hours. The board's page says the interior is open only on an official Schlossberg guided tour and on the summer-holiday days it lists there. This record is the tower, not the Schlossberg park or the funicular and lift that climb the hill.
Near Graz Clock Tower
Park
Schlossberg Graz
The Schlossberg is the wooded hill above Graz's old town, the site of a former fortress, laid out as a public park with the Clock Tower, the Bell Tower and the remains of the fortifications.
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Gallery
Kunsthaus Graz
Kunsthaus Graz is the Universalmuseum Joanneum's house for international contemporary art on Lendkai in Graz, a biomorphic building by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier built for the European Capital of Culture 2003.
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Church
Graz Cathedral
Graz Cathedral is the late-Gothic court church that Emperor Frederick III built from 1438 in Graz's old town, the cathedral of the Catholic diocese of Graz-Seckau since 1786, beside the Mausoleum of Ferdinand II.
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Historic site
Eggenberg Palace
Eggenberg Palace is the Baroque residence of the Eggenberg family in the west of Graz, begun in 1625 and run by the Universalmuseum Joanneum, with its state rooms, landscaped park and three museums.
4 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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