Town Hall in Trzcińsko-Zdrój

The town hall in Trzcińsko-Zdrój stands in the southern part of the market square and is the historic seat of the town authorities. The brick building, with a Gothic portal and a tracery gable, was extended and rebuilt over several centuries.

From a merchants' house to a town hall

The seed of the town hall was the Merchants' House, rebuilt in the 14th century as the seat of the town authorities. A market hall was added to its eastern part. At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries the two parts were joined and a new storey was added.

The town hall was often damaged and so was often rebuilt. In the 19th century its annexes were removed, and after 1945 and in the 1990s it underwent renovation and revalorisation. The heritage register gives the second half of the 13th century as the time of its origin.

What survives in the structure

• a rectangular plan and two storeys, plastered brick walls, a steep tiled roof,
• high cellars with barrel vaults,
• cross-rib vaults in some rooms,
• the former courtroom with net vaults and 16th-century Renaissance polychrome decoration,
• a Gothic, pointed-arch entrance portal in the east gable wall,
• a triangular gable of the west facade with tracery decoration and small turrets.

The oldest part of the building has survived in the ground floor of the east gable.

Practical information

• Address: Rynek 15, Trzcińsko-Zdrój.
• Check the rules of entry to the interiors with the town office before your visit.
• About 100 metres from the town hall stands the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.