Kiskunfélegyháza Town Hall, Art Nouveau town hall in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary.
Kiskunfélegyháza Town Hall is an administrative building in Art Nouveau style located in the Hungarian town of Kiskunfélegyháza. The structure features a principal floor with ornamental facade details, a characteristic tower, and symmetrically arranged upper-floor windows.
The town hall was built between 1909 and 1911 on the site of the old town hall, which could no longer seat the 200-member council. After two failed design competitions judged by Ödön Lechner and Samu Pecz, the city chose József Vas's plan in 1908. Vas died in January 1910, and his relative Nándor Morbitzer took over, adding a tower and altering the ornamentation. It was inaugurated on 16 October 1911.
The gable facing Szent János tér carries the town's coat of arms, and the attic and gables are clad in Zsolnay ceramics. Inside, the assembly hall holds large standing portraits of Lajos Kossuth and Lajos Holló. The hall still hosts council sessions and civil wedding ceremonies.
The building still houses the Kiskunfélegyháza Mayor's Office, and the assembly hall on the upper floor is where the municipal council meets and civil weddings are held. The entrance hall on the ground floor holds two black marble memorial tablets, one of them commemorating Mrs József Kalmár, a benefactor of the town.
In the ground-floor entrance hall, two black marble plaques list the town's notable dates; one honours Mrs József Kalmár, who left the town a large sum in her will. It was turned face-in against the wall under the communist dictatorship and ceremonially restored in the early 1990s.
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