Constructed in: 1886
Typology: town hall
Architect: M. Haller
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The town hall of #Hamburg, constructed from 1886 to 1897 after the 1842 great fire razed the old one, embodies the city's late-19th-century wealth and fierce independence within the newly formed German Empire. Led by architect Martin Haller and six collaborators, its lavish neo-renaissance exteriorm, with a striking 112-meter tower, ornate historicist details, and now-green copper roof, proclaims Hamburg's republican traditions and prosperity. Spanning 17,000 m² with 647 rooms, it includes a Hygieia fountain courtyard commemorating the 1892 cholera epidemic. The balcony bears a mosaic of patron goddess Hammonia and the Latin motto urging posterity to preserve ancestral freedoms.
