On your left stands a broad pale stone Renaissance storehouse with a stepped double gable, rows of barred windows, and an iron waterspout poking up between the split roofs.
This is the Innerberger Stadel, raised around sixteen twelve and sixteen thirteen as a serious piece of utility architecture... which then acquired unusually elegant sgraffito, the scratched plaster decoration framing its doors and windows. In sixteen twenty-eight, the Innerberger iron consortium bought it, and the building took their name. Right over the heavy main gate, a fresco from the story of Joseph advertises the point of the place: storing provisions. Medieval branding, just with more Bible. Above that, you can spot the date sixteen twelve, and on the second floor a haloed double eagle carries the iron guild's coat of arms.
Inside, the ground floor uses vaulted rooms, some with stucco, while the upper floors rely on massive timber beams built to carry weight. If you want, glance at the before-and-after image; one year it looks calm, the next it's wrapped in scaffolding for its later museum revival.
Now it holds the city museum and the Steyr nativity theater. Take one last look, and when you're ready, we’ll continue to the next stop.
