Old Town Hall

The old town hall

The Salzburg audio-guided tour takes you before the old town hall, recognisable by its characteristic tower. It is here that, for centuries, the municipal life of the city was exercised.

A symbol of municipal power

It was in the fourteenth century that the city acquired a large building intended to host the municipality. At the time, owning a town hall was synonymous with power and wealth, and it was looked upon favourably to have one to mark one's importance. Enlarged in the sixteenth century, renovated in the seventeenth, then modified in the eighteenth, the building today displays a fine rococo façade and a tower easily recognisable in the landscape of the old town.

What there is to see

The old town hall is distinguished by its rococo façade and its slender tower, which rises above the roofs of the old town. Inserted into the tight fabric of the alleys, it offers a fine testimony of the civil architecture and the municipal history of Salzburg. It is an appreciated landmark along the walk in the historic centre.

Practical information

The old town hall is in the heart of the old town of Salzburg, near the Getreidegasse. Its façade and its tower can be contemplated from the street, along the walk and on the level.

When was the old town hall built?

In the fourteenth century; it was then enlarged in the sixteenth, renovated in the seventeenth and modified in the eighteenth, taking its present rococo façade.

How to recognise the old town hall?

By its slender tower and its rococo-style façade, which stand out in the landscape of the old town.