Rathaus Leer, Historicist town hall in Leer, Germany

Rathaus Leer is a Historicist town hall built of red brick with light stone trim, modelled on Flemish town halls with a tall belfry. Its square corner tower rises 50.4 metres, with clock faces below the balustrade, an open lantern housing a carillon, and a gilded ship as weather vane. The three-storey north and west wings have round-arched windows with shell ornament and a west gable with a stair turret.

The new town hall was needed because the railway from Emden via Leer to Rheine and the town's economic growth swelled the municipal staff. Bernhard August Schelten (1840–1881) made Leer his sole heir, and his bequest covered about 44% of the 387,646 Mark cost. Of 31 architects in the competition, judged among others by Paul Wallot, Karl Henrici's design won; the building went up from 1889 and was inaugurated on 29 October 1894.

The Stuttgart painter Robert Heinrich Nachbauer decorated the entrance hall, stairwell and festival rooms with murals; the entrance area shows allegorical figures and grotesques in Renaissance style. The small festival hall on the first floor, wood-panelled and used as a wedding room, and the large hall on the second floor with its painted wooden barrel vault are open to visitors during events.

The town hall stands at the crossroads of Königstraße and Rathausstraße in the old town, opposite the Alte Waage and west of the harbour. The tower's viewing platform is 28.4 metres up, and the tower itself reaches 50.4 metres. The building is still the seat of the city administration, so the halls and meeting rooms are not open to casual visitors.

The tower's weather vane is a gilded ship, and the carillon in its open lantern was made playable again during the 2015 tower restoration. The clock faces sit beneath the balustrade, and the viewing platform stands at 28.4 metres, with the tower reaching 50.4 metres in all.