Town hall in Cheb, Baroque town hall in Cheb, Czech Republic

The Baroque New Town Hall in Cheb is a two-storey building with a clock tower added in the 19th century. Its facade has a shallow central projection and two stone portals on the ground floor, and the roof carries three rows of dormers. Inside, the ground floor is vaulted and the upper floors have flat ceilings, with stucco and sculpture decoration including statues of Hercules and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child on the top floor.

A first town hall stood by St John's Square and was probably moved to the new market during the 12th-century town expansion; a 1270 fire may have destroyed it. The Gothic replacement rose in the 14th and 15th centuries over five burgher plots, and in 1459 repairs accompanied the wedding of George of Poděbrady. After 1697 purchases of two southern houses, Giovanni Battista Alliprandi's Baroque design was built in reduced form from 1723 to 1727.

The building functions as the city's administrative center and displays on its facade the different construction phases that Cheb experienced over the centuries. Walking around it, you can see how the city evolved by comparing the older and newer sections of the structure.

The building stands on Krále Jiřího z Poděbrad Square, with a round-arched portal framed by pilasters on the left and a wide carriage entrance to the courtyard on the right. The ground floor is vaulted and the upper floors have flat ceilings; the clock tower was added only in the 19th century.

The building visibly shows the marks of every era it has stood through, as repairs and renovations were never completely unified in style. This makes it a compelling example of how a city literally carries its past on its walls.