The neo-Gothic building of the New Town Hall is located in the very centre of the Old Town on Marienplatz. Its construction took more than 40 years (1867-1909). Many Munich residents were dissatisfied with the height of the Town Hall tower (85 metres) - they feared that it would overshadow the grandeur of the city's cathedral. But this did not happen.
The facade of the building is decorated with numerous sculptures of Bavarian dukes, kings and electors, mythological characters, and many gutters in the form of mythical creatures.
On the tower of the New Town Hall is one of the main attractions of the Bavarian capital - the famous chiming clock. It strikes at 11 a.m. and from May to October at noon and 5 p.m. at the same time. At the same time, the figures on the two tiers are rotating: the upper tier depicts the 1568 tournament organised on the occasion of the marriage of Duke Wilhelm V and the Princess of Lorraine, while the lower tier shows the dancing figures of the bochers celebrating the end of the plague epidemic that struck the city in 1515-1517.
