The beguiling old town hall creates a different impression depending on how you approach it.
The south facade is one of the outstanding examples of Alemannic half-timbered architecture and dates from the building’s origins in the 1420s.In those times the council chamber was on the upper floor, while the ground floor was for trade and taxation.Death sentences would be handed down from the window of the upper council chamber.Step around to the north and you’ll be greeted by a refined late-16th-century curved gable, by the master Renaissance architect Heinrich Schickhardt.The astronomical clock came in 1592, and its allegorical automatons Justitia (Justice) and Temperantia move at the stroke of every hour.