Wrocław Town Hall

The Wroclaw's Town Hall is a landmark of the city of Wroclaw. It was built in the 13th century in the middle of the Great Rings, in the 15th century elaborately rebuilt in late Gothic style. The richly decorated eastern facade with an astronomical clock from 1580 is represented in numerous publications over the city. Your tracery and its pinnacles are from the period around the year 1500., The bay on the southeast corner was created in the years 1476-1488 by Briccius Gauske from Görlitz.

The south facade with several bays comes from the second half of the 15th century. Her sculptures represent scenes from the urban life of the Middle Ages dar. The built in the western part of the town hall tower building in the Renaissance style was built in the years 1588-1595. It is 66 m high.

In the years 1860-1863 a neo-Gothic extension according to designs by Friedrich August Stiller was built next to the old Town Hall on the grounds of the old canvas house. It now houses the reception rooms of the Mayor and the meeting rooms of the City Council. Then the old City Hall was renovated in 1865 by Karl Liidecke: the post-installed partition walls were removed and added a new staircase on the north side.

During the Second World War, the town hall was damaged and restored in the years 1949-1953 under the direction of Marcin Bukowski.

In the historical building is the Museum of bourgeois art (Polish Muzeum Sztuki Mieszczańskiej ). In the basement you will find the well-known, for more than 700 years (from about 1275 ) existing beer economy " Schweidnitzer cellar ".