Židovská radnice / Jewish Town Hall (Prague - Josefov)
N 50° 05.395 E 014° 25.107
33U E 458399 N 5548790
Close to the famous Old-New Synagogue you can find another architectonic and historic landmark of Jewish settlement in Prague - Jewish Town Hall which current Rococo facade and look is a result of reconstruction in XVIIIth century...
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 02/13/2011
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Close to the famous Old-New Synagogue you can find another architectonic and historic landmark of Jewish settlement in Prague - Jewish Town Hall which current Rococo facade and look is a result of reconstruction in XVIIIth century.
The Prague's Jewish Town Hall is currently home to the Federation of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia and Moravia, and the Jewish Religious community in Prague. It was created out of the renovation of the original town hall of Maisel, a contemporary of Rabbi Löw and a man of inordinate wealth and discriminating taste. It was erected in Renaissance style by Pankras Roder in the late 16th century. The late-Baroque (Rococo) remodelling of the town hall was carried out by the architect Josef Schleisinger in 1763-1765. On the roof of the building stand an original wooden turret with rich Rococo grill and a clock with Hebrew figures whose hands turn anti-clockwise.