Old Town Hall / Stará radnice - Jindrichuv Hradec (South Bohemia, CZ) - City and Town Halls on Waymarking.com

Old Town Hall in Jindrichuv Hradec was first mentioned in 1493, when a small tower was built on its top, where master Hanuš of Prague attached a new astronomical clock (supposedly he was the creator of the Prague Old Town Hall astronomical clock).

At the beginning of the 17th century, Town Hall was rebuilt, and the small street where bread used to be sold disappeared. The passageway (viz photogalelry) is still called "Chlebnice" (chléb = bread). The fire in May 1801 took its toll also on the town hall, which had to be rebuilt. In 1807 it was completed by Josef Schaffer, a well-known Jindrichuv Hradec builder, who reconstructed and built many burgher houses at the beginning of the 19th century. Today, the Old Town Hall has three floors and a mansard roof, over the passageway there is the municipal coat of arm in the form as it was obtained from the King Vladislav II in 1483. The building served as the town hall until 1848.

Before the municipal authority returned to the building, the interior, especially the meeting room, was reconstructed according to the design of the architect Jan Kotera. After World War II, the old town hall no longer served its original purpose and since 1991 offices of the Municipal Authority Construction Department and Urban Planning Department have been located here.