Town Hall Tower, Kraków
Year 2020 | |
| Established | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Location | Kraków, Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°03′41″N 19°56′11″E / 50.06150°N 19.93640°E |
| Manager | Piotr Hapanowicz |
| Director | Michał Niezabitowski |
| Curator | Piotr Hapanowicz |
| Public transit access | Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne w Krakowie how to get there, see external links |
| Website | http://www.mhk.pl/branches/town-hall-tower |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | iv |
| Designated | 1978 |
| Part of | Historic Centre of Kraków |
| Reference no. | 29 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
Town Hall Tower in Kraków, Poland (Polish: Wieża ratuszowa w Krakowie) is one of the main focal points of the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków.
The Tower is the only remaining part of the old Kraków Town Hall (Ratusz, see painting, below) demolished in 1820 as part of the city plan to open up the Main Square. Its cellars once housed a city prison with a Medieval torture chamber.
In 1967, after a complex conservation which underlined its gothic ancestry, the tower was put under the management of the Historical Museum of Kraków.