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New Town Hall, Munich

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The New Town Hall stands on the northern side of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, and has housed the city government of Munich, including the city council and the offices of the mayors, since the administration moved there from the Old Town Hall. Designed by Georg von Hauberrisser in the Gothic Revival, or neo-Gothic, style, it was largely completed by the end of 1906, with its clock mechanism operating from 1909. The building holds about 400 rooms across roughly 9,159 square meters behind a nearly 100 meter main facade richly decorated with figures from Bavarian history, and is topped by an 85 meter tower bearing the Munchner Kindl figure. Built of brick and shell limestone around six interior courtyards, the design drew inspiration from the town halls of Brussels and Vienna, and its facade and fountains carry allegorical figures and scenes from folk legend.

Facts
Building Type
Town Hall 1
Location
Munich, Germany 1
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1909 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Government / Parliament Building 1
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Parliament Building, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Source New Town Hall (Munich) - Wikipedia
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. New Town Hall (Munich) - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, building_type
    Town hall
  • Infobox, location
    Munich, Germany
  • infobox building_type/type field: Town hall
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The New Town Hall stands on the northern side of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, and has housed the city government of Munich, including the city council and the offices of the mayors, since the administration moved there from the Old Town Hall. Designed by Georg von Hauberrisser in the Gothic Revival, or neo-Gothic, style, it was largely completed by the end of 1906, with its clock mechanism operating from 1909. The building holds about 400 rooms across roughly 9,159 square meters behind a nearly 100 meter main facade richly decorated with figures from Bavarian history, and is topped by an 85 meter tower bearing the Munchner Kindl figure. Built of brick and shell limestone around six interior courtyards, the design drew inspiration from the town halls of Brussels and Vienna, and its facade and fountains carry allegorical figures and scenes from folk legend.
  • In Style: Gothic Revival, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic Revival
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2. New Town Hall, Munich (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1909)
Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1909)
Wikidata item Q152979, property P571: 1909
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