Old Town Hall

A good looking historical place

Frederick the Fair donated the original building on the site to the city council in 1316 and has been owned by the city ever since. It was the site of.. Read more » the execution of Franz III. Nádasdy on 30 April 1671 in the wake of the Magnate conspiracy. On 26 May 1848, during Vienna's March Revolution, it housed meetings of the People's Security Committee, as memorialised by a plaque on the building. Since 1871 Sankt Salvator has been in the care of the Old Catholic Church of Austria, which was founded by those rejecting the doctrine of papal infallibility, though that new religious community was only recognised by the Austrian state in 1877. The Altes Rathaus last housed a meeting of Vienna's city council on 20 June 1885, with the first at the Neue Rathaus three days later. The Altes Rathaus now houses the municipal offices for the 1st and 8th districts of the city, the inner city's local history museum (Bezirksmuseum Innere Stadt) and the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. In 1893, it was the site of the founding of the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein.

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the old town hall was built in 1470 by Jörg von Halsbach now it's a toy museum

Quite an interesting looking building in the Marianplatz. It looks like it is also a museum but we didn't have time to go in. It looked like a toy mus.. Read more »eum. It is still an interesting looking building with an interesting looking clocktower. The entrance is under the clocktower with an interesting looking windchime.

Just about visible from Karlsplatz through the Christmas markets the Old Town Hall is located at Marienplatz (often pronounced as Marine Platz) about .. Read more »a 200-300m walk. It used to be the seat of the local government and is today only used for Munich council affairs. Unfortunately for us we were there on Christmas Eve and it was obviously closed - not sure if it is open to visitors at other times of the year, but we would have liked to have gone in to see it as it originally dates from the early 14th century. According to our walking tour guide, the arches below the building were introduced in the late 19th century for both foot and horse-and-carriage traffic due to the rapid expansion of the city.

We were invited to this beautiful room - the Festsaal - for an official event. It was a real privilege to be there. The catering was very good, but ex.. Read more »ternal, so can vary, depending on the booking.

The rotunda composed of domestic sandstone, designed by the court architect Giovanni Salucci, turned out to be a monument for the popular Queen. Since.. Read more » the beginning of the 20th century the Sepulchral Chapel is publicly available. Russian Orthodox church services are still celebrate today.

In general, it is a sightly building with simple old architecture. If it would stand somewhere far from the center, I would not advise to go somewhere.. Read more » specifically for its sake. But since it stands in the very center next to the new town hall, you must take at least five minutes to look at this building and evaluate the architecture of that time in another representative of it.