page_title: Town Hall in Cieszyn
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Town Hall in Cieszyn / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Cieszyn, ratusz, 1496, 1661, 1670, 1720, 1800, 1846English: Cieszyn, Town hall, build in 1496, 1661, 1670, 1720, 1800, 1846 This is a photo of a monument in Poland identified by the ID 639308
context_page_description: The Town Hall in Cieszyn is a historic town hall in Cieszyn, Poland. It is located in the corner of the southern frontage of the Town Square and Srebrna Street.
context_section_description: The town hall has been rebuilt many times and currently its style may be described as Baroque-Classicistic. Located in the southern frontage of the market square it was built on the plan of a square with a slightly indented northeastern corner. The town hall has three storeys with a dominant clock tower incorporated centrally in  the corpus of the building. The facade of the building was built according to the plans of Andrzej Kment. In its central part there is a 6-axes projection based on six pillars surmounted by a triangle pediment with the coat of arms of Cieszyn and a floral ornament. Vertical divisions of the façade form rusticated pilaster strips, between which a window in profiled frames is located. The second floor is separated by a ledge.
  The town hall tower is erected on the square plan with rounded corners, decorated by Corinthian pilasters that support a notable ledge on cantilevers and a porch with an iron balustrade. Windows of the tower in its lower part are closed by a full arch. In the upper part the windows are square. All of them have profiled frames. The tower is covered by a tin tent roof crowned by a quadrilateral lantern with doubled columns in the corners. The access to the tower is a 19th-century slatted door with fittings. The tower clock is equipped with a mechanism made by Johan Chris Boeck from Austria in 1851. There are bells from the 18th century in the tower; the first one has a badge with a presentation of Saint Michael; the second was made by Johan Grosmein from Weiten.
  The interior is arranged according to a three-tract corridor plan. In the basement there are rooms with barrel vaults on straps and sail straps. On the ground floor in the central part of the built there is a hallway with cross-and-barrel vault with straps based on pilasters and wall-contacting pillars. From the side of Srebrna Street there is a second hallway, covered by a modular arch and partly by a sail vault, with additional light provided by a skylight with two windows. The main staircase has a barrel vault with a segment arch. The stairs have three legs, the central leg opened to the inside of the staircase by three arches with a pattern of a basket arch, based on pillars. The walls of the corridor are decorated by wall-contacting pillars. Some of the rooms on the ground floor have a barrel vault with lunettes, cross-barrel; vault or sail vault. On the first floor there is a hall with three fields of sail vaults on straps in the back tract of the building, and on the second floor there are two rooms in the front tract with a sail vault and a vault on straps and a representatives meeting hall.
caption: Tower of the town hall in Cieszyn. Coat of arms of Cieszyn visible in the tympanum.
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