Historisches Rathaus der Stadt Köln

The Historisches Rathaus in Cologne features a sixty-one-meter tall Gothic tower characterized by one hundred and thirty stone statues lining its exterior. Often cited as the oldest city hall in Germany, its documented history as a house of the citizens reaches back to the twelfth century. The complex grew over eight hundred years, layering a fourteenth-century core, a fifteenth-century tower, and a sixteenth-century Renaissance loggia into a single administrative site.