Tallinn town hall
Hall as well as the windows of the basement and the ground floor were walled up. Partitions were
built into the Citizens' Hall, turning its space into several separate rooms. A lot of the medieval
architecture of the Town Hall was destroyed or distorted in the course of that reconstruction.
In 1667 the interior decor of the Council Chamber was modernised. Lunette paintings to themes of
the Bible were ordered from painter Johann Aken and carved wooden friezes beneath them from
Elert Thiele and Joachim Armbrust.
In the 19th century both the windows of the Town Hall and its eastern façade were rebuilt in the
Gothic Revival style. The structure stepped into the 20th century with big changes in its exterior
and interior decoration, and smaller changes followed in the first half of the 20th century.
The spire of the tower was consumed in flames in a Soviet air raid on 9 March 1944. This triggered
the start of restoration work after the war.
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