Dom Vekruta

When the city was rebuilt after the fire of 1639, Anton Borchardt, one of the richest Vyborg merchants, who built a peaked two-storey house in the Hanseatic style on it around 1650, received a prestigious plot near the town hall on the main square of the city. After his ruin, the merchant Matias Pülse lived in the house, and then the building was bought by the richest city dweller - Johan Vekrut. When he went bankrupt, the building passed into the hands of the magistrate, there was a customs office. Then there was a hotel, the headquarters of the Finnish Shchutskor, and after the war - an object of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Now the house is residential, and on the ground floor there is a small cafe ...

Very beautiful house with a rich history and different owners. Renovated in its current state in 2007. On the ground floor of the cafe.

This beautiful house was built around 1650 for one of the richest Vyborg merchants Anton Borchardt. The building was two-story with a semi-basement and three windows on the floor on the northern front facade and seven windows overlooking the square. The front facade was crowned with a high stepped baroque pediment gable; a small gable was also in the center of the western facade. Over the course of its history, the house changed owners many times, but it was named after one of them: Juhan Vekrut, who rebuilt and expanded the building: by 1750 the shape of the window openings was changed, the facades were covered with plaster, and in the center of the facade from the square, an extension was made with a front stairs and balcony. Since the house was considered the richest and most beautiful in the city, it was used for representative functions: in 1770, the Prussian prince Henry stayed here, and in 1772, Empress Catherine II. The next reconstruction took place in the house in 1840-1841, when the new owner I. Sparrov ordered the project to the architect K. Leszig. He rebuilt the building in the style of classicism. The high roof with a gable gable was replaced by a gable roof with a semicircular attic window. In 1897, by order of the new owner Niels Perandder, the architect E. Dippel rebuilt the building on the model of the North German Hanseatic houses, using elements in the Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Gothic styles. Instead of the entrance from the side of the square, a semicircular bay window appeared on the western facade, and a high pediment of complex shape with towers decorated with vases was again erected on the front facade. During the Soviet-Finnish wars, the house was lucky; he received minor damage. After the fire of 1989, the house of Vekrut was abandoned for a long time. It was repaired only by 2007, adding a new courtyard building. In the corner room on the ground floor of the apartment building is located the Pretzel coffee house.

Vyborg is a wonderful warm place.

A city with a rich history, very beautiful, it has a special atmosphere of comfort and tranquility