Architecture

Dom-utyug, Viborg

Address: Выборгская улица 1А
Area: Vyborg, Russia
Districts: Castle Town

Mon: 00:00–23:59
Tue: 00:00–23:59
Wed: 00:00–23:59
Thu: 00:00–23:59
Fri: 00:00–23:59
Sat: 00:00–23:59
Sun: 00:00–23:59
Hours: The residential building can be viewed from outside at any time; the interior is inaccessible.
Price: Exterior viewing is free.
How to visit: View the building from the street, including from Novaya Zastava Street, to see the “flat house” effect. The interior is not open to visitors.
Hours: Free entry
Hours: Good after dark
Hours: About 15–30 min

Why it is worth the detour

A unique architectural landmark known as the 'Witch's House' or 'Iron House' in Vyborg.

The Witch's House is a distinctive residential building in Vyborg, built in 1898 in a neo-Gothic style with modern elements. It is a cultural heritage site, notable for its unique architecture and historical significance.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

50 m
Holy Spirit Merchant Guild House
This small boulder-built house is often described as Vyborg's oldest surviving secular building, although its precise construction date remains debated. In the sixteenth century its upper floor hosted merchant negotiations, revealing the commercial power sheltered inside the same fortified town that had survived the siege of 1495. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%94%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0?utm_source=openai))
150 m
Old Vyborg Cathedral
Ruins of a historic cathedral with a rich multi-denominational past.
200 m
Clock Tower
The tower began as the bell tower of Vyborg's cathedral, rising within the fortified town whose churches and houses stood behind the wall attacked in 1495. It survived the transfer of Vyborg from Sweden to Russia after the 1710 siege, later becoming both a clock tower and a fire lookout while the adjoining cathedral fell into ruin. ([vyborgmuseum.org](https://vyborgmuseum.org/chasovaja-bashnja?utm_source=openai))
200 m
Wahl House
This merchant compound housed the offices of Paul Wahl and Company, one of nineteenth-century Vyborg’s important trading firms. Its last family owner, Olympic sailor Harry Wahl, filled the house with one of Finland’s greatest collections of stringed instruments, including violins by Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati.
200 m
Citizen's House
This tiny tower-shaped dwelling, concealed inside a courtyard, is one of Vyborg's rare medieval private “fortresses.” Its thick boulder walls and cellar show how an urban household could resemble a defensive post in a frontier city repeatedly threatened by assault. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%28%D0%92%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%29?utm_source=openai))
200 m
Podgornaya Street
Known historically as Bishop's Street, this picturesque route preserves seventeenth-century merchant houses and the irregular line of medieval Vyborg.