The House of the Good Shepherd ( sk, Dom U dobrého pastiera) is a narrow,

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-style building in

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, located in the

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below

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. It was built in 1760–1765 by notable Bratislava master-

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Matej (Matthäus) Hollrigl.Jančušková, p. 318 The townhouse was constructed for a local merchant and the lower part of the building was used for commercial purposes, the upper part for living. It is one of the few buildings in the area below Bratislava Castle to retain their original state, mostly due to the demolition of much of the Jewish quarter in the 20th century. Today, the house is home to th
Museum of Clocks
which exhibits antique

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made from 17th to the beginning of the 20th century, specializing in 18th and 19th century timepieces from Bratislava

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s. The ground floor and basement serve as a pub. It gained its title because of the statue of Christ, the Good Shepherd, on its corner. The House of the Good Shepherd is considered to be one of the most beautiful Rococo-style buildings in

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The building was constructed in 1760–1765 with a trapezium contour and extremely narrow frontal face with a width of one room and staircase for a Bratislava (at that time Pressburg/Pozsony) merchant. After a reconstruction in 1975, Bratislava City Museum opened its exhibition of over 60 historical clocks here. The building serves this purpose to this day.

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