Szydłowiec Szydłowiec (; ; ) is a town in Szydłowiec County, Mazovian Voivodeship, south-central Poland, with 5,243 inhabitants (31 December 2005). It is the seat of Gmina Szydłowiec (commune). Szydłowiec is part of the historic region of Lesser Polan ...

Town Hall is a late Renaissance building that is the seat of the mayor and local government administration of

Function

The town hall is the seat of the Mayor and The Town Council administration.

History

In the centre of typical medieval town square of Szydłowiec there is a late

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

town hall built in 1602–1629. It is counted among the most impressive and precious monuments of Burgher architecture in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. Its silhouette resembles to some degree the town hall of

Sandomierz Sandomierz (pronounced: ; , ) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants (), situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin. It has been part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy ...

, but makes a grander impression. Its noble figure makes the town hall the most characteristic landmark of the town. In front of the town hall's façade there is the town's historical

pillory The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. ...

. It goes back to the first half of the 17th century. Szydłowiec's pillory is a unique

monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...

of the kind in Poland.

Sources

* Łoziński, J. Z. and Wolff, B., eds. (1961). ''Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce''. Vol. 3. Warsaw: E. Krygier, J. Z. Łoziński. * Słomińska-Paprocka, D. (2009). ''Powiat szydłowiecki w województwie mazowieckim''. Szydłowiec.
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