About the location
The New Cottbus Town Hall was built between 1934 and 1936 and characterises the cityscape with its striking architecture. The building was erected as a massive four-winged structure made of clinker brick, with the clinker bricks coming from the Ilse Bergbau AG works in Großräschen. The pillared colonnades on Berliner Straße are particularly striking, with artistic reliefs above them symbolising traditional Cottbus craftsmanship. A memorial plaque on the building also refers to the birthplace of the famous landscape painter Carl Blechen, which once stood on the site of today's town hall. Today, the New Town Hall serves as the city's administrative centre and is a historical testimony to the architecture of the time.