Today it hosts several cultural associations and the town's tourist information centre, and is a venue for concerts and theatre.
The hall was built in an eclectic style by the Viennese architect Peter Paul Brang between 1905 and 1906 as the main seat of ethnic German associations in the town.
In 1919, after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the building was confiscated from the German community by the new Yugoslav authorities and renamed "Celje Hall".
Several cultural associations were placed in the building, including the Hermagoras Society publishing house, which was after the Carinthian Plebiscite expelled from its original location in Klagenfurt, Austria.
After the Nazi German occupation of northern Slovenia and Lower Styria in April 1941, the building was again restored to its former use.