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Schloss Lamberg above the confluence, the burgher houses of the Stadtplatz, Steyr’s churches and the old quarter of Steyrdorf.
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- Stadtplatz (main square)Long medieval square lined with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque houses.
- BummerlhausLate-Gothic house, first documented 1450, façade dated 1497 (Stadtplatz 32).
- Town hall (Rococo building)Built 1765–1778 to plans by Johann Gotthard Hayberger.
- Schloss LambergCastle above the confluence, first recorded in 980, Baroque after 1727.
- Stadtpfarrkirche (parish church)Late-Gothic church rebuilt from 1443 by Hanns Puchsbaum.
- MichaelerkircheTwin-towered Baroque church (1635–1677) above the river Steyr.
- MarienkircheFormer Dominican church on the Stadtplatz, Rococo interior.
- Christkindl pilgrimage churchBaroque church begun in 1702, continued by Jakob Prandtauer.
- Christkindl Christmas post officeOpen since 1950; in 2026 from 27 November to 31 December.
- Museum ArbeitsweltMuseum of work and industry, opened in 1987 in listed factory buildings in the Wehrgraben.
- City museum (Innerberger Stadel)Granary of 1612/13, a museum since 1913, home of the Steyrer Kripperl.
- Steyrdorf & WehrgrabenThe old district across the river Steyr, and the Wehrgraben canals.
- LeopoldibrunnenBaroque fountain topped by Saint Leopold, heart of the Advent village.
- SternhausLate-Baroque façade with a golden star held by two eagles (Stadtplatz 12).
- Brucknerplatz & Bruckner monumentMonument of 1898 with a bust by Victor Tilgner, next to the Alter Pfarrhof.
- Dunklhof15th-century house with 16th-century arcades, Kirchengasse 16.
- Roter BrunnenFountain in Gleinker Gasse with an 18th-century statue of Mary.
- Sierninger Straße & LebzelterhausHistoric street of Steyrdorf; the Lebzelterhaus (around 1600) stands at no. 1.
- Confluence of the Enns and the SteyrZwischenbrücken, below Schloss Lamberg: where the Steyr meets the Enns.
- Eisenuhrenmuseum SchmollgruberPrivate museum of antique iron clocks with a working clockmaker’s workshop.
- Nativity scenes in ChristkindlKarl Klauda’s mechanical nativity (nearly 300 moving figures) and Ferdinand Pöttmesser’s 200 m² nativity. Advent.
