Town hall in Bělá pod Bezdězem, Town hall building in Bělá pod Bezdězem, Czech Republic.

The town hall of Bělá pod Bezdězem is an administrative building in the town center showing traditional features of Bohemian design. Its interior displays rooms from different periods, including a former detention area in the basement.

A wooden town hall bought from the miller Kutil in 1593 was replaced in 1613, under Bohuchval Berka of Dubé, by a one-storey stone Renaissance building with a tower and a jail in its courtyard. In 1848 the town decided to add a second floor to house the district court; the plan was approved in 1849, the budget was 11,510 guilders and 30 kreuzers, and the rebuilt building was taken into use in 1851.

The Latin inscription on the 1613 portal, ending with the word IVDICIVM for the year 1613, calls the building the seat of judges and warns the godless to respect divine law. Two taverns once operated inside the town hall, where theatre was also performed, and a caretaker with a ground-floor room and two chambers ran the pub until the 1850 rebuilding.

The building stands at the southwest corner of Masaryk Square, with its tower closing the north side. Look for the iron Czech ell standard fixed to the wall by the entrance gate, a medieval length measure used into the 19th century. The 1613 portal with two Tuscan columns and the town coat of arms is the main detail to examine up close.

The iron standard of the Czech cubit (loket), a medieval length measure used into the 19th century, is fixed to the wall by the town hall's entrance gate. The 1613 portal above it has a tympanon on two Tuscan columns with the town coat of arms and a Latin inscription ending IVDICIVM 1613, 'judgment'. Its three winged angel heads match the portal of Kuřívody Castle.