Kreilinger-Haus

Kreilinger-Haus stands in Passau as a historic building where artistic and commercial chapters meet. A memorial plaque here marks Johann Georg Unruhe. The building brings together an eighteenth-century church painter’s former home and a later specialty business.

Johann Georg Unruhe was born in Passau in 1724 and became a church painter. In Brixen, he assisted Paul Troger with the cathedral ceiling fresco in 1748 and 1749. He returned to Passau in 1751. In 1753, his father acquired Joseph Christoph Plazer’s painter’s rights for him here. Unruhe later became a city councillor in January 1784 and lived here until his death in 1801.

Franz Kreilinger, born in Passau in 1891, expanded Alois Kreilinger’s business from these premises. The shop sold iron goods, hardware, and kitchen appliances. By the mid-twentieth century, the trade had become a prominent commercial establishment in Passau. The plaque links a painter’s residence with the later history of local commerce.