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Main - - Culture - Architectural monuments - Vitebsk region Vitebsk Town Hall
Vitebsk Town Hall. The monument of architecture with elements of the late Baroque and Classicism. After Vitebsk had got Magdeburg law in 1597 a wooden hall was built on the territory of Uzgorski castle. It was destroyed in 1624 and rebuilt in 1644.A guest house and shops which were placed along the perimeter of the market square were attached to the Town Hall. The building of the Town Hall repeatedly suffered from fires - in 1708, 1733, 1752. In 1775 a brick Town Hall was built, which was the composite centre of Market Square. It was a two-storey rectangular building in the centre of which there was a four-storey tower, completed with a hipped roof with a spire. In the solution the features of the Baroque style (the tower) combined with the Classicism (main building). In the late 18th - early 19th century two-storey houses with shops on the ground floors were added to the town hall. In 1883 a clock was installed on the tower, the hip roof was replaced with a tower- rotunda. In 1911 the 3rd floor was added above the main body, the entrance porch was erected. The building was reconstructed and renovated in 1923, 1944, 1970 and 1980. Currently, the Town Hall is a three-storey building, over which a three-tiered tower is raised. The facades are dissected by pilasters and shaped cornice. The solution of the tower is dominated by the features of the Baroque.
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