The neo-Baroque style City Hall is among the eclectic palaces embracing the Szechenyi square.
Its foundation stone was laid down in 1799 designed and built by Istvan Vedres and Janos Schwortz.
In 1883, it was redone after damaged by flood on the original foundation into a new one-storey
building by Odon Lechner and Gyula Partos. The City Hall is connected with the "Bridge of Sighs",
to the neighbouring council house, which was constructed for the King-days in 1883, when Franz
Joseph took a visit in the city reconstructed after the great flood of 1879.