City hall in Shkloŭ is one of not numerous city halls which remained in Belarus.

City halls were main buildings of most of European cities. In seventeen sixty-two Shkloŭ received Magdeburg rights − an autonomy of a city. Together with this privilege the city received its own coat of arms and a stamp. During seventeen seventy – seventeen seventy-two a market-place with shopping streets and City Hall were built in the city. The building of City hall as well as the shopping streets was accomplished in the style of Classicism. City Hall represented the two-storeyed building with a high tower in the middle and with a thoroughfare. Dimensions of the shopping streets for those time were considerable – sixty on seventy metres. About a hundred commercial shops were placed on this relatively small area. During the Second World War City Hall was strongly damaged. Efforts to renew the building of City Hall in order to include it in a list of architectural monuments weren’t bearing for a long time because of absence of financial assets. Only in nineteen ninety-nine City Hall was restored and in a year the commercial shops were rebuilt anew. Today there is a gymnasium in the new building and in City Hall there is a museum.

Publication date: 08.08.2017.

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