Old town hall, Cultural monument and former administrative center in Chrudim, Czech Republic

The Old Town Hall sits at Resselovo Square with Gothic and Renaissance features visible in its well-maintained exterior. The structure brings together different architectural styles that developed and blended over several centuries.

The core of the building predates 1560, when it was rebuilt in Renaissance style; Gothic cellars survive. A fire damaged it in 1641, and it burned again in 1806. The Baroque remodelling of 1720–1721 is attributed probably to Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel. Since 1958 it has been a protected cultural monument.

Above the ground-floor windows runs a Latin inscription from the Renaissance rebuild: "HAEC DOMVS ODIT NEQVITIAM, AMAT PACEM, PVNIT CRIMINA, CONSERVAT IVRA, HONORAT PROBOS" — this house hates wickedness, loves peace, punishes crimes, preserves rights, honours the honest. During Advent the vestibule displays the Chrudim Nativity scene carved by Pavel Tapušík.

The Old Town Hall stands on Resselovo Square, opposite the parish church. Since 1989 it has housed the municipal police and an information centre, so visitors go there for tourist information rather than for exhibitions. The ground floor has a semicircular passage on the left and an edicule portal on the right, whose keystone cartouche holds the town coat of arms.

During the Baroque remodelling, a large stone eagle was being hoisted into the upper facade when the scaffolding broke. It fell on a soldier standing below, crushing both legs; he died three hours later, and the town had to provide a replacement man, as an 18th-century chronicle records.