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== ''' History and Architecture''' ==

[[File:Old Town Hall, Prague.jpg|thumb|The Old Town Hall is a complex of several houses adjacent to the Old Town Square. They were gradually connected to a single unit for the purpose of administration of the Old Town of Prague.]]

<nowiki> </nowiki>In 1338 the councillors of the Old Town bought a magnificent patrician house from the family of Volflin od Kamene and adapted it for their purposes. In the course of the centuries the original building of the Town Hall practically disappeared under the addition of later years and the only external remnat of the original structure today is the Gothic stone portal with mouldings in the western part of the building. The burghers of the Old Town extended their original Town Hall towards the west by buying the adjoining house and started the construction of a mighty square stone tower. The tower- then the highest in the city- was completed in 1364 and the following centuries hardly left any traces on the structure.

In 1338 the councillors of the Old Town bought a magnificant patrician house from the family of Volflin od Kamene and adapted it for their pusrposes. In the course of the centuries the original building of the Town Hall practically disappeared under the addition of later years and the only external remain of the original structure today is the Gothic stone portal with mouldings in the western part of the building. The burlers of the Old Town extended the original Town Hall towards the west by buying the adjoining house and started the construction of a mighty square stone tower which was completed in 1364 and the following centuries hardly left any traces.

The architectural development of the Old Town Hall was far from completed. After a certain interruption due to the tempestuous events of the Hussite movement (1419-1434), in 1458, another house was bought on the west side. It made possible extensive adaptations of the interior. New halls were established in the south wing, but only the council room on the top floor has preserved its original appearance. Internal adapations were reflected in external reconstruction work to be seen on the south facade to this day. Reconstrution of the vestibule on the groundfloor of Volflin house terminated in the construction of a beatutiful new portal in the late-Gothic style which for more than a hundred years marked urban architecture in the Czech lands. The Gothic arch of the portal has archivolts rich in plastic ornaments. Decorated brackets support the outer arch which is a typical late-Gothic ogee arch crowned by an imposing finial. The brackets on either side of the portal terminate in slender pinnacles. The structure dates from the close of the 15th century, but the wooden double door itself dates as late as from the year 1652.