Town Hall, Bolekhiv

The Bolekhiv Town Hall is an administrative building, the premises of the magistrate of the town of Bolekhiv in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast.

The town hall was built in 1863, although it was founded in the eighteenth century. Bolekhiv received Magdeburg rights in 1603, so it needed a building for the town magistrate. It is not known what the old town hall looked like.

The modern town hall is located in the city center, on Ivan Franko Square. It is a small, one-story, rectangular building. The town hall tower rises above the main entrance. On the third floor of the tower, there is a chiming clock with four dials over 1.2 meters in diameter. Under the dials is the coat of arms of Ukraine. The tower is completed by an original peaked roof decorated with figured turrets with spiers. It makes the tower and the entire town hall look elegant.

The town hall was used until the 40s of the twentieth century as a magistrate's office. Since 1944, the building was alternately used as the headquarters of an NKVD regiment, a city clinic, and a souvenir and haberdashery factory. In 1979, the Museum of Military Glory was opened here, which operated until 1990 and was liquidated in 1993. In 2001, the town hall was restored, and new chimes by a contemporary Lviv master O. Burnaiev were installed on the tower.

Today, the town hall is used for its intended purpose: it houses the Bolekhiv City Council.

It is an architectural monument of local importance.

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