A city hall is a usually representative building and administrative seat (and/or main building of the administrative seat) of the municipality or city administration. Already with the Greeks there were city halls (Bouleuterion) in those the advice met. The Bouleuterion was however not at the same time the place for the administration, which was accommodated in the Prytaneion. In the Middle Ages the city halls - particularly since the award of independent municipal rights - developed as the most important building of everyday of the cities. Here met the urban advice, that consisted of influential families or Patriziern. The city hall - as seat of the advice - was in many places locked for the guilds and Gilden long time and. The requirement to be reserved the particularly privileged became clear also in its rich architectural arrangement. A far away visible city hall tower often accommodated the only clock of the city. Beside the advice hall often also large halls for festivenesses of the city in the city hall were to be found. There many city halls from the award of city and market rights had developed often also large market halls in the ground floor to find.

The building of city halls was usually established in the center of the cities and extended gradually. In the course of the municipality reform into the 1970er years in Germany many city halls of today's local parts other uses were supplied.

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