This tenement house from 1547, in the late Gothic and early Renaissance style, wants to be noticed, which is facilitated by the orange color of the facade.
Attention is also drawn to the funny, slanted windows of the staircase. Due to the similarities in the tracery decoration with the nearby Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, it is assumed that its creator was the court builder of duke Barnim XI.
The late-Gothic tenement house was erected in 1547 by the Loitz family, whose ancestors in the first half of the 15th century became famous for their faithful service at the prince's court, later trading in salt and herring. Eventually, they became bankers and, thanks to family connections, established banks in Gdańsk and Lüneburg and exchange offices in major European cities. They sat on prominent positions in the City Council of Szczecin.
They granted a substantial loan to the Elector of Brandenburg, Joachim II Hektor, and the Polish king, Sigismund Augustus, for the expansion of the naval fleet. After their death, unable to enforce the repayment of their debts, they declared bankruptcy in 1572 and secretly left Szczecin for Poland. Their collapse shook the market economy of Europe at that time for several dozen years.
The building later went through various vicissitudes. Among other things, he lived in the Swiss Abraham Dubendorf, who in the years 1729-1732 from the Warszewskie Hills built a pipeline supplying water to the city, hence the alley next to the name "Loitzów alley" (Loitzerhof), was called "Swiss alley" (Schweitzerhof).
During the Allied bombings in 1944, the tenement house was destroyed. After post-war reconstruction, in 1961 it was transferred to the High School of Fine Arts.
On the façade there are late-Gothic traceries, a staircase with slanted windows and a copy of a sandstone relief depicting the conversion of Saul. The original comes from Schenck Bethe's workshop and is exhibited at the National Museum at ul. Staromłyńska.