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In the 1890s, several imposing, historical villas were built in Vídeňská Street, all designed by the Viennese architect Jacob Gartner.
The designer of the Olomouc synagogue created for local grandees one of the most important collections of historicising architecture in Moravia. The villa of Eduard Hamburger, President of the Austrian Maltsters’ Association and Chairman of the Olomouc Jewish religious community, built in 1895–96, is the most magnificent of them.
The ostentatiously decorated house resembling German Renaissance and partly Baroque still commands respect today. The dominant feature of the richly structured villa is a tall tower, a motif that is repeated in the neighbouring villas. Inside, the house is divided into lounges which lead on to terraces. The interior was richly decorated by plasterers, sculptors, carpenters and other artisans.