Klaipėda City Hall
The Klaipėda Town Hall (lit. Klaipėdos rotušė , German Memel Town Hall ) is a former town hall in Klaipėda (German Memel ), Lithuania . It is a historic building in which the mayor resides with his deputies and advisors as well as the Klaipėda Municipality Secretariat .
history
The house was built around 1782. The owner was initially the Danish consul Lorenz Lorck , who sold it to his son-in-law from the Consentius merchant family. It was therefore called the House of Consentius . Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia , who had spent the night there on the occasion of a meeting with Tsar Alexander I in June 1802, resided with his wife Luise in the Consentius house from 1807 to 1808 on the run from Napoleon during the 4th coalition war . It was later used as a stock exchange hall. The Memel Stock Exchange building was in the immediate vicinity until it was destroyed in 1944. In 1846 the Magistrate of Memel finally bought the building for 13,000 thalers. It became the town hall. The building survived the city fire of 1854 undamaged. In 1876 it was rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style. The total cost of the renovation was 60,000 thalers . After 1923 the Memelland Landtag met in the building . The building was also preserved undamaged during the Second World War .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 21 ° 7 ′ 49.8 ″ E