Market Square and Town Hall in Skierniewice
Local name: Rynek i ratusz w Skierniewicach
The town hall is a historic building, designed by the Italian architect Marconi, crowned with a clock tower and covered with a bonanza. On the walls there are commemorative plaques - the memory of Jan Kilinski and the memory of the murdered in 1942. Market them. Jan Odrowąza, in the middle of which stands the town hall, has one and two storey stone buildings. The shape of this former market square from 1457 has survived in a medieval urban layout.
The City Hall was originally a wooden building, but was burnt down during the city's great fire. In its place it was first re-built wooden, and then according to a new vision of the city, the brick town hall was erected in 1847.
From the time of the uprising until 1915, it was used by the tsar administration, and subsequently, after the rebuilding in 1918 by the German authorities. November 11, 1918, a group led by W. Strakcz took control of the building, disarming enemy soldiers. During World War II the town hall served as a prison.
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