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A late historicistic building in the city centre, designed as hotel and built in 1905. Owned by the prominent Jewish family Görög.

A three-storey corner house of Alfred Kästenbaum-Korsky, PhD, an attorney-at-law, was built in 1913, according to the main design of Viktor Beneš, an architect from Prague. The Kästenbaums (the Korskys since 1913)were a very prominent and wealthy Osijek Jewish family.

The house was designed by the Viennese architect Heinrich Adam in 1896. This, once representative, Neo-Baroque and Historicist building consisted of Winter’s law office and 2 flats. From the then archival cadastral documents it is evident that the house was equally owned by Wilim and his wifw, Julija, born Ungar, who intensly engaged in humanitarian work.

The house of the eminent Osijek Rein family – lawyer Mavro Rein, PhD, and his son Ivan, a very important Osijek and Paris painter, whose rich opus was interrupted by his death in World War II.

A large house in Historicism style in the city centre, situated diagonally across the crossroads from famous Osijek Secession sequence of representative houses and villas.

The building in the city centre used to belong to the Miskolczy family of very prominent OsijekJewish merchants and industrialists. A public Adult Education Centre is situated there now. The family also owned the house at 3 Županijska (County) Street, one of the most prestigeous Upper Town locations.

One of the rare Osijek Secession villas, built in 1906 according to the design of the Osijek builder Otto Struppi as a villa for Union steam mill’s director. After the First World War, it changed its owners and became a renowned Bathory-Weissmann sanatorium, having kept its hospital function until recently. Now it has been reconstructed to its initial beauty.