Lublin City Hall

At the end of Królewska Street, on the side of Krakowskie Przedmieście, stands the New Town Hall building. It used to be the church of the Discalced Carmelites, who arrived in Lublin at the beginning of the 17th century. They erected their church, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Scapular, near the Church of the Holy Spirit, which had existed since the 14th century. The Carmelites were built by Italian masons Jakub Balin and Jakub Tremanzel. Work began in 1612. Together with the monastery buildings, a complex was built near the Krakowska Gate.

A few years after the fire of Krakowskie Przedmieście in 1803, the monks left the burnt church, moving to Carmelite nuns in Świętoduska Street. The Carmelite ruins were auctioned off. After several years, it was bought by the city from private owners, entrusting the renovation of the neglected premises to Aleksander Groff, the general builder of the Kingdom of Poland. The work was carried out in the years 1827-1829 under the supervision of Jakub Hempel, the provincial builder. A "beautiful two-storey building with a tasteful tower", as Seweryn Zenon Sierpiński wrote in his guide to Lublin in the first half of the 19th century, was restored. It was intended as the seat of the municipal authorities, formerly housed in the Old Town Hall. The ground floor of the so-called magistrate's office housed offices, the cashier's office, the city archive and the police station. The first floor, with a concert hall, was given to a restaurant. The building also housed the mayor's flat and several flats rented to officials. The building gained a representative appearance both from the side of the main city thoroughfare, which was then Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, and from the side of Nowa Street, leading towards Lubartów.

During the bombardment of Lublin in September 1939, the New Town Hall was destroyed. After the war, the building was rebuilt. The works were carried out in the years 1947-1952 under the supervision of the architect Ignacy Kędzierski. To this day, it is the seat of the city mayor and the municipal administration.