Tabor Town Hall
Tábor Town Hall ranks among the most important monuments of late Gothic style in Czech cities.
Accessibility
Year-round, according to current operating hours
Entrance fee
Yes, according to the current price
How to get there
You can use one of the Tábor car parks
Time needed to visit
1 hour
Additional information
There is a gothic hall with a statue of Jan Žižka. On the tower of the town hall there is the Tábor astronomical clock with one hour hand.
In Tábor it was the first public building. The town council met in its premises, the town "law" was held here, as well as all major events of public life. The town hall symbolised the town's seriousness, prestige and position in relation to the other towns of the kingdom.
The authorship of the palace and the entire town hall building is attributed to the architect and stonemason Wendel Roskopf, perhaps originally from Lužnice. Roskopf's involvement in the construction of the town hall is evidenced by the inscription and stone mark on the town's brick coat of arms, dated 1515 - 1516. Roskopf completed the construction of the town hall around 1521. In the second half of the 17th century, the building, damaged by the previous war years, was rebuilt in the Baroque style to a design by Antonio de Alfieri. In 1878, the architect Josef Niklas attempted to restore the town hall to its late Gothic character. The town hall owes its present appearance to Niklas's historicizing design, among other things.
While the ground floor of the building is the entrance to a network of underground passages, the halls of the town hall are now used for exhibitions of the Hussite Museum and for important cultural events. In the adjacent rooms are exhibited works of art related to Tábor or Hussite themes. A small gallery of František Bílek (1872-1941), a native of nearby Chýnov, who often depicted Hussite themes, was also remembered.
Do you know that...
...Tábor Town Hall is one of the most important monuments of late Gothic architecture in Czech cities? Its construction probably began in the early years of the 16th century, when the town council had three houses on the western front of the square demolished. This freed up enough space to build a monumental town hall. A large building with four wings surrounded a small courtyard, open to the square by a spacious hall with wide arches of portals. The Great Hall, also called the "palace", is rightly considered the most historically valuable public interior in Tábor. Its architect has brought the weight of the vault into the side walls of the hall and into two slender polygonal columns. Two male heads on one of the pillars, according to tradition, depict Jan Žižka and Prokop Holý.
