Old Town Hall in Toruń
Gothic brick town hall on Toruń's market square, now the main seat of the District Museum.
Toruń's Old Town Hall fills the centre of the market square and counts among the largest brick civic buildings in central Europe. A trading hall and tower stood here from the 1270s; between 1391 and 1399 they were absorbed into a single four-winged block with an arcaded courtyard, built for a Hanseatic city grown rich on trade along the Vistula. Swedish artillery burned the building in 1703, and the rebuilding that followed added Baroque gables and interiors while leaving the Gothic structure intact.
Since 1946 the town hall has been the main seat of the District Museum in Toruń. Its rooms hold a gallery of Gothic art from Pomerania and the Chełmno Land, medieval stained glass, an exhibition on the city between 1233 and 1793, a display of Toruń mints and coinage, portraits of Polish kings and a gallery of Polish painting. The forty-metre tower can be climbed for a view over the medieval quarter, which UNESCO inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997.
Highlights
- One of the largest brick town halls in central Europe
- Gallery of Gothic art from Pomerania and the Chełmno Land
- Displays on the Toruń mint and its coinage
- Climbable 40-metre tower above the UNESCO-listed old town
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