Muzeum Hist. Krakowa 02 Ratusz krakowski w 1. połowie XIV wieku.

The Town Hall in Kraków was probably erected at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century, as the oldest written sources mention it from 1313 or 1316. The Krakow City Hall was then one of the first buildings in Poland intended strictly for local government authorities. The building was located on the Market Square, in its south-western part, perpendicular to the Cloth Hall. At the end of the fourteenth century, the Town Hall was enriched with the so-called The Notary's House, in the same century, there was also a porch surrounding the already three-story building. In the Renaissance period, the Kraków Town Hall was rebuilt and enriched with a Granary, which was crowned with an attic in the 17th century. A century later, a guardhouse was added to the building, closely adjacent to it. Due to the poorly carried out demolition of the granary, in 1820 a large part of the town hall was also demolished, leaving only the town hall tower, which luckily has survived to this day, and the cellars. Both monuments were renovated and restored in the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.