Architecture

House on the Rock

Address: corner of Vodyanoy Zastavy Street and Progonnaya Street
Area: Vyborg, Russia

Hours: No current visitor schedule was found.
How to visit: The landmark can be viewed from Vodnoy Zastavy Street and Progonnaya Street; the building stands at the corner, set back from the street. Public interior access was not confirmed.
Hours: About 15 min

House on the Rock — Александровы АГ, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why it is worth the detour

This small burgher house sits directly on a granite outcrop where two medieval streets meet. Tradition associates it with a prosperous barber, giving it the nickname “Barber’s House”; although heavily altered after wars and sieges, it remains a rare fragment of domestic Swedish-era Vyborg.

This small burgher house, known as the 'Barber's House,' sits on a granite outcrop where two medieval streets meet. Despite alterations, it remains a unique piece of Vyborg's architectural history.

What else is close by

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

50 m
Burgher's Estate
This surviving merchant compound preserves the irregular orientation of Vyborg before the orderly street plan imposed in the seventeenth century. Its stone residence and former stable evoke the prosperous but heavily defended civilian town that grew in the shadow of the castle and its recurring wars. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0?utm_source=openai))
100 m
St. Hyacinth's Church, Vyborg
One of the oldest stone residential buildings in Vyborg, now housing historical exhibitions.
150 m
Vyborg market
A historic covered market building in Vyborg, Russia.
150 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.
150 m
Hackman and Co House in Vyborg
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150 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))