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Town Hall - Façade and Inner Courtyard

What remained intact from the Late Gothic three-storey building from the 15^th century are the ogival arch portal and the metal cast plate – made by the Nuremberg Workshop – above it that is dated 1468.

Underneath the ogival arch there is the imperial crest with the crown above it. The crest is held by two angels and underneath there is a quote from the “Sachsenspiegel”, the most important legal code of the German Middle Ages: “Ains mans red ein halbe red, man sol sy verhoren bed” – which means that a judge must hear both parties, not just one, to pass a just judgement. Underneath is the year MCCCCLXVIII and the Carinthian crest.

In the spandrels, there are the four saints Lorenz, Andreas, Wolfgang and Sebaldus and the house emblems of the donating families of father and son Kaltenhauser.

In 1754, stucco plasterer Max Josef Pittner (1705 to 1760) created the superb Late Baroque facade based on a draft plan by Johann Pacher. The façade is a work of architectural art unmatched in Carinthia.

The three-storey Renaissance arcades with Sgraffito décor were built around 1540 and are an impressive enclosure of the courtyard. On the eastern side of the courtyard, there is a small lapidarium of Roman memorials. In 1998, a marble floor with floor heating was installed and the courtyard was covered with a glass cupola, so that it can now be used all year round. The cupola also ensures that this wonderful courtyard will be preserved.

The council chamber on the first floor of the Town Hall still has the wide vaulted ceiling that Pittner decorated so richly with late Baroque stucco in 1754.