Augsburg Town Hall

The Town Hall of Augsburg is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most full size secular homes of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It become designed and built via Elias Holl, Stadtbaumeister Master Builder of the metropolis in 1615 to 1624. Due to its historical and cultural importance, it's miles included by using the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The authentic Augsburg Rathaus become constructed in 1385, and it turned into decided at the beginning of the 17^th century to complete a simple maintenance of it with the intention to accommodate the Imperial Reichstag, which then sat within the metropolis.

In 1609, the town council commissioned the renowned architect, Elias Holl, to attract up a protection plan for the Gothic constructing. It became best after 6 years of labor that Holl may want to produce a plan for the magistrates, however this turned into rejected by the council and to Holl's wonder, he became issued with a new quick to demolish the vintage Gothic metropolis corridor and erect in its vicinity a beautiful new constructing.