Mogilev City Hall
Rebuilt baroque town hall on Glory Square housing the city history museum and a tower viewing deck.
Mogilev received Magdeburg rights in 1577 and built a succession of wooden town halls before a brick one went up between 1679 and 1681 on the square above the Dnieper. Its tower, rebuilt after fires and settlement several times during the eighteenth century, reached about forty-six metres and carried a clock. Catherine II and Joseph II met in the building in 1780, and Russian and Soviet administrations used it in turn. Heavily damaged in the Second World War, the shell was demolished in 1957.
The town hall was rebuilt between 2007 and 2008 to the historic design and opened on the city's day in 2008. It now holds the Museum of the History of Mogilev, whose rooms cover the town from its earliest settlement through the Magdeburg period, the Russian Empire and the twentieth century, with an interior reconstructed in the manner of a magistrate's chamber. A lift and stair lead to the tower gallery, from which a trumpeter figure called Magislau sounds the hours.
Highlights
- Baroque town hall reconstructed on its 1681 design and opened in 2008
- Museum of the History of Mogilev in the main rooms
- Tower viewing gallery over the Dnieper and the old town
- Mechanical trumpeter that marks the hours from the tower
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