Simple, austere and unadorned: This is the impression visitors get when they look at an emty Untere rathaushalle (Lower Hall of the Rathaus). For six hundred years it has been essentially unaltered and is regarded as one of the few important secular buildings of the late Gothic period.
Two rows of dark, coarsely hewn oak pillars divide the hall into three long aisles corridors. For centuries, this room served as a market hall. Covered and protected from wind and rain, this was also an ideal meeting place. Until the 19th century, the Lower Court pronounced its judgements in Untere Rathaushalle. The remarkable portals were made between 1545 and 1660. They serve as an entrance to New Rathaus.