City Hall

A building from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, constructed in the Neo-Gothic style and situated on a high hill. The red-brick structure features an elaborate, multi-part form of varying heights, topped by a multi-sloped, multi-pitched roof covered with ceramic tiles. The building’s front facade is three stories high; the ground floor features four windows topped with gentle arches and fitted with clinker brick sills, while the second story features two triforia, each consisting of two side single-leaf, three-light windows and a central four-light window, which is noticeably taller. These windows are topped by a beige-plastered blind window framed at the top by a donkey-back arch. The topmost section is filled with plastered blind windows of various shapes; the two uppermost, centrally located blind windows contain small openings, and above them, in the central axis, is a blind window in the form of an oculus.  The main entrance portal is located in a side projection set back slightly from the main body of the building. The light-wood entrance door, with beautiful iron hardware featuring floral motifs, contrasts interestingly with the dark red of the walls. Above the gently arched lintel is a tympanum decorated with the city’s coat of arms, set within a circular, white-plastered field framed by a brick band; in the lower corners of the tympanum are, on the left, the coat of arms of Wałcz County, and on the right, the coat of arms of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, both created in modern times.

Before World War II, the building housed a court. Today, it serves as the headquarters of the City and Municipality Office and the Registry Office.