Brașov · Historic centre · Protected zone · 2nd floor, no lift
Brașov · Old town · Protected zone
In the Palatul Spitz — the house built in 1912 by architect Albert Schuller, in Brașov’s protected zone, diagonally across from Piața Sfatului: an apartment with two original tiled stoves, herringbone parquet and an interior design drawn up for the next owner.
The protected zone inside the old walls, diagonally across from Piața Sfatului. Protected-zone rules restrict new construction nearby — the view of the towers and the hill is protected.
1912, architect Albert Schuller. Two tiled stoves, herringbone parquet, original joinery — restored, not replaced.
Survey, plans and renders for every room pass to the buyer. The design is done.
The entrance is from Mureșenilor: step out of the house and, diagonally across, you are in Piața Sfatului, in the heart of a town that never stops. The windows, though, face the other side — După Ziduri, the most secluded street of the old town, between the wall and the hill, with the sound of a stream that has a history: the Șcheiu, channelled in the Middle Ages as the moat and known on the maps as the Graft — the name Brașov still uses today, alongside the older one, Spurcata. The house stands in the protected built zone of the fortifications: new interventions around it are regulated.
Brașov is Romania’s third tourist destination: 1.4 million arrivals in the county in 2025, one in ten of the country’s tourists, with foreign visitors up more than 10% (INS). The season is double — skiing and mountains in winter, the old town and Bran in summer — and the historic centre is visited all year round.
Rooms over 3 metres high, herringbone parquet, two tiled stoves, wooden windows and doors with the original hardware. The windows keep their period wooden roller shutters, which retract into the box above — a rare detail, restored together with the joinery. The staircase and corridor keep their period tiles.
The house at number 5 is known in town as Palatul Spitz: built in 1912 for the merchant Albert Spitz by Albert Schuller, the architect who gave Brașov the Krone Hotel and the Saxon National Bank. The building runs from the street to the old city wall, with a rear exit onto Strada După Ziduri and a view of the Black Tower from the inner courtyard; the stairwell still carries its Art Nouveau ornament. The street was once Klostergasse and Kolostor utca, after the Dominican monastery first recorded in 1342, then Zollstrasse — Customs Street, the way merchants’ carts entered the walled city.
In the 1920s it was home to the teacher Ioan Baciu and his wife Elisabeta, parents of the poet Ștefan Baciu (1918–1993), who lived here himself before exile, Brazil and a professorship in the United States. Their neighbours included Dr Valeriu Negrilă, Major Mihăilescu, the printer Boerescu and the Schreibers, co-owners of the Scherg mill. On the street were the Lischka menswear shop and the Enea, Stinghe & Tigoiu cooperative bookshop; the ground floor held a branch of the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, and between the wars a ballet studio worked upstairs. Two of the tiled stoves set in 1912 are still in the apartment.
Sources: letter of the Brașov County Directorate for Culture no. 6260/30.04.2025; Wikipedia RO — “Albert Schuller”, “Strada Mureșenilor din Brașov”; Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon; the memoirs of Ștefan Baciu (1980); the structural survey.
The project is by a designer-architect specialised in period apartments — meticulous work made for precisely this segment: survey, demolition and construction plans, floors, ceilings, wiring, elevations of every wall and renders for every room, worked out centimetre by centimetre, so that the interior keeps the historic value and the spirit of a house from the Austro-Hungarian years. The proposed interventions are limited: the wet rooms are enlarged and a single door moves, in a non-load-bearing wall. The stoves and the parquet stay.
The works are interior and touch neither structure nor façade; the layout stays largely the same. The interior design project is complete and passes to the buyer together with the apartment, with the author’s consent; she can adapt it on request.
Glazed doors open towards the bedroom; the chandelier, the round rug and the original herringbone parquet.
A compact kitchenette in the hall: walnut fronts, marble worktop, checkerboard floor. Today’s kitchen makes room for the second bedroom.
Upholstered headboard, round mirror, light from the courtyard window.
The window towards the hill, the old wardrobe restored, a striped headboard. A room for children, guests or an office.
Marble, brass, small-tile mosaic floors. The second bathroom takes the place of the pantry next to the boiler.
Load-bearing walls are untouched. The kitchen becomes a kitchenette in the hall, the pantry becomes a bathroom, a single door is moved. The rest is finishes and services.
The project includes the survey, the plans, the elevations of every wall and renders for each room. All the drawings pass to the buyer together with the apartment.
Cristian, our contact in Brașov, opens the door, shows you the apartment and answers your questions — at any convenient time, weekends included. From abroad: a video viewing over WhatsApp. Sold directly by the owner; agents welcome, no exclusivity.