This late Gothic building in the middle of the old town (Herzog-Friedrich-Straße) is considered a landmark of the city. The roof of the bay window was covered with 2,657 fire-gilded copper shingles. To be honest, we find this sight a little boring. But maybe that's because it's raining during our stay and the city is covered in grey.
The building was built in 1420 as the residence (“Neuhof”) of the Tyrolean princes. To mark the turning point (1500), Niklas Türing the Elder added the magnificent oriel on behalf of the German king and later emperor Maximilian I between 1497/98 and 1500.
Jakob Hutter, preacher of the Anabaptists, was publicly burned alive in front of the Golden Roof on February 25, 1536 (during the reign of Archduke Ferdinand, a grandson of Maximilian I).
In 1996, the Maximilianeum Museum was established in the building, which was reopened as the Golden Roof Museum in 2007 after extensive extension and renovation work.
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