Bardejov Town Hall
Early Renaissance town hall of 1511 on the UNESCO-listed square, housing the Šariš Museum.
The town hall stands alone in the middle of Radničné námestie, the long market square of Bardejov. It was built between 1505 and 1511 for a wealthy free royal town on the trade route to Poland. The lower parts and the vaulted hall are late Gothic, the work of Master Alexander, while the loggia, the portals and the carved window frames were executed in Renaissance style by Master Alexius of Kraków, making it one of the earliest Renaissance buildings in Slovakia.
The building served as the seat of the town council, the court and the municipal treasury, and later as a store for the town archive. Since 1903 it has been linked to the Šariš Museum, which now uses it for displays on the history of the free royal town, its guilds and its trade privileges. The museum also runs an icon collection, a natural history exhibition and an open-air folk architecture museum at Bardejovské Kúpele. The historic town centre was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
Highlights
- Renaissance loggia and carved portals by Master Alexius
- Late Gothic vaulted council hall on the ground floor
- Displays on the guilds of the free royal town
- Part of the UNESCO-listed Bardejov town centre
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