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    Christopher Mcdonald

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    According to the results of field studies, it can be said that the oldest town hall building

    covered the current town hall's western part and the south wall of the current arcade faced

    the market square.In 1346, the king of Denmark ceded the power in Estonia to the Teutonic

    Order.As a Hanseatic city, Tallinn gained the right to control the eastern trade having the so-

    called right as a stockpile area.The fast growth of trading and prosperity determined the

    need for new rooms and a presentable appearance for the town hall.The oldest, eastern part

    of the building was extended from 1371 to 1374 towards the west.This building with the

    current length did not differ much from a big citizen's house.The building got its exterior in

    1402–04, with the rebuilding led by stonemason Ghercke, which has been preserved in the

    key features to the present day.The building was built with two storeys.A salient octahedral

    tower, which is mostly built into the building and leans on the wall, rises from the building's

    eastern gable.It was built in 1627–28 by G. Graff.It has a three-piece baroque spire with

    open galleries.The tower is 64 metres high.The spire was built in 1627, but obtained its final

    shape in 1781 and was also reconstructed in this shape in 1952 after its destruction during

    World War II (architect A. Kukkur).The spire is in Late Renaissance style.Decorative details

    are a crenelated battlement that acts as a stronghold, the "Old Thomas" (Vana Toomas) on

    top of the tower (the copy of the original from 1530 is in the Tallinn City Museum

    (Linnamuuseum)), vane with three eggs, that are held by the simple rock lion and gargoyles

    decorated with the heads of dragons on the western gable.The Old Thomas is wearing the

    clothing of a 16th-century city guard.He can be named the symbol of Tallinn and there are
    even poems dedicated to him.The Old Thomas is holding a flag that has 1996 written on

    it.An open arcade gear is on the building's square's long side, which is almost on the whole

    façade's ground floor scope (archway).Cellar entrances and windows unfold here.The initial

    portal was placed on the façade's western side.The current main entrance was built later,

    supposedly in the 18th century.The door next to the former portal is subsequent.Low

    annexes on the western side of the building were established at the end of the 18th

    century.The main façade's windows were also repeatedly changed; in the 18th century they

    were quadrangular.The rooms on the western side of the cellar are covered with edgeline

    vaults that are carried by the strong quadrangular pillars.Part of the cellar's partitions were

    probably built later.A strong wall separates the western side of the cellar from the

    noticeably lower building in the east.An open arcade gear is on the square side of the

    building.The current main entrance with a stairway was built in the 18th century.Low

    annexes on the western side of the building were built at the end of the same

    century.During the Middle Ages, a trade hall and a torture chamber and wine cellar were

    located on the first floor.In the Middle Ages, there was a court on the second floor and in

    addition a coffer, a room for keeping accounts, representative hall for citizens, town hall

    parlour (raesaal) and town hall kitchen (raeköök).The massive façade supporting on the

    open sharp arcade gear is split into groups by narrow quadrangular windows, which are a

    bit bigger than those of regular houses.These groups of windows mark the three most

    important offices and representational spaces of the main floor, starting from the tower: the

    town hall writer's room (kämmerei); the single-nave town hall room, which was the hall

    meetings room for the town hall lords; and a two-nave citizens' hall.From the tin squared

    windows, town hall lords could see several houses under the town hall: weighing house,

    pharmacy, coin mint and a jail.At the end of the façade is a parapet reminding of the upper

    part of a fortress wall with decorative loop-holes.The shape of the tower following directly
    the example of the Church of the Holy Ghost and a rear parapet on the façade's cornice line

    refer to the indirect contacts with the sub-Rhineland building art.The main façade is

    decorated by a defensive parapet and dragon head-shaped gargoyles.It is pervaded by an

    arcade, which consists of nine arcs and is the length of almost the whole building.In

    addition, the façade is supported by eight pillars.It was comfortable for merchants to shelter

    under the arcade in case of rain.One of the pillars of the arcade-gear of the town hall was

    used as a pillory.Criminals were chained to it to display them to the townspeople, so that

    they could dishonor and mock them.It had a neck rail and manacles.The arcade ends with

    the town hall's main entrance in the right side.The main door differs from other smaller

    doors and hatches with beautiful statuary jambs and three stairs that lead to the

    door.Because of them it is visible that that is the main entrance.The fiber of the first floor's

    western side is similar to the cellar under it – its edgeline vault is carried by four low

    tetrahedral pillars.In the Middle Ages there was supposedly a so-called trade hall here

    where new goods were introduced and bargains were made.The room on the eastern side

    from the trade hall, whose vaults lean on identical tetrahedral pillars, was a torture

    chamber in the Middle Ages.

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