Town hall in Telč, Renaissance town hall in Telč, Czech Republic

The Town Hall of Telč is a two-storey Renaissance building on the south side of Zachariáš of Hradec Square, formed by joining two former houses. Its facade has a tall pilaster order running the full height, the date 1574 in a capital, and an asymmetrical round bell tower above the attic. The vaulted ground-floor hall rests on a single central pillar.

The first written record of the town hall dates from 1443. The building was destroyed by an explosion in 1499 and by fire in 1530; its present form dates from a Renaissance rebuilding of 1574 on the site of two former houses, designed by the Italian-born builder Baldassare Maggi. A general reconstruction ran from 2020 to 2022.

The building stands on náměstí Zachariáše z Hradce, named after the Moravian governor Zachariáš of Hradec, who commissioned Baldassare Maggi's work in Telč. In the arcade below the façade, a plaque recalls the town's inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992. The ground-floor mázhaus is vaulted onto a single central pillar.

The building houses the municipal office and the town information centre, so it can be entered during office hours. In the entrance portal a stone ell (lOKet) serves as a historical length standard, and the arcade carries a plaque marking the town's 1992 UNESCO listing. The whole building was reconstructed between 2020 and 2022.

The entrance portal holds a metal gauge of the old length measure, the ell (lOKet), set into the stone. In the arcade below, a plaque recalls the town's inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992.