History of the Town Hall building

On 20 September 1501, the brothers from Žerotín, the then owners of the town and the estate, issued a deed in which they gave Nové Jičín a free house on the square for the establishment of a town hall, meat, fur, shoemaking and bread shops. Unfortunately, on 25 April, the town hall was destroyed by a devastating fire and had to be rebuilt. Its rebuilding was made possible thanks to the help of the Žerotín family. In 1586, however, Emperor Rudolf II allowed the town castle to be used as the town hall and so the town hall was moved there. It was not until 1661 that the town hall office moved to the present town hall building. The 19th century brought a regulated magistrate, a new administrative concept of town government under the supervision of the state and then self-government, but also a new form of town hall - a neo-Gothic two-storey building. The building also housed the local rhetoric school and the first municipal museum established by the son of the former postmaster of Nový Jičín, Wilhelm Kattauer. Between 1929 and 1930 the building underwent a radical reconstruction, which left only a torso of the historic building. Thanks to this, the town hall acquired a modern appearance and a picturesque colour in harmony with the other buildings on the square.

The Town Hall is located on Masaryk Square with the descriptive number 1/1.