Brussels Town Hall stands on the Grand Place in the heart of Brussels and is the only surviving medieval building on that square, serving today as the seat of the city government of Brussels. Built between 1401 and 1455 by the architects Jean Bornoy, Jacob van Thienen and Jan van Ruysbroek, it is regarded as a masterpiece of civil Gothic architecture in the Brabantine Gothic style, with three Classicist rear wings added between 1706 and 1717. An asymmetrical facade frames a 96 meter central tower whose square base rises into an ornate octagonal lantern topped by a gilded spire and a statue of Saint Michael. The ground floor carries ogival arcades and mullioned windows, and roughly 300 decorative statues were added during nineteenth century restoration; inside, the building holds ceremonial rooms including the States of Brabant Room, the Maximilian Room and the Gothic Room. The Grand Place, including the Town Hall, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.
Facts
Building Type LocationGrand-Place/Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Connections
Has Building Type
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
Source Wikidata: Brussels Town Hall
Source Wikidata: Brussels Town Hall
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, located there.
Sources
1. Brussels Town Hall - Wikipedia
Infobox, building_type
Town hall
Infobox, location
Grand-Place/Grote Markt
Infobox, completion_date
1455
Infobox, height
96 m
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Brussels Town Hall stands on the Grand Place in the heart of Brussels and is the only surviving medieval building on that square, serving today as the seat of the city government of Brussels. Built between 1401 and 1455 by the architects Jean Bornoy, Jacob van Thienen and Jan van Ruysbroek, it is regarded as a masterpiece of civil Gothic architecture in the Brabantine Gothic style, with three Classicist rear wings added between 1706 and 1717. An asymmetrical facade frames a 96 meter central tower whose square base rises into an ornate octagonal lantern topped by a gilded spire and a statue of Saint Michael. The ground floor carries ogival arcades and mullioned windows, and roughly 300 decorative statues were added during nineteenth century restoration; inside, the building holds ceremonial rooms including the States of Brabant Room, the Maximilian Room and the Gothic Room. The Grand Place, including the Town Hall, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Brussels Town Hall
- Wikidata Q1255327, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- In Style: Gothic Architecture, Infobox style field: Gothic, Brabantine Gothic, Classicism
- In Style: Brabantine Gothic Architecture, Infobox style field: Gothic, Brabantine Gothic, Classicism
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