Delft City Hall

The City Hall in Delft is a Renaissance style building on the Markt across from the Nieuwe Kerk.

Most administrative functions have been transferred to an office inside the Delft railway station building.

The tower, called "De Steen" or "The Stone", was originally built around 1300 and has decorative clockfaces from 1536 and the bells were made by Hendrick van Trier and Francois Hemony.

[2] Under the tower is an old city prison where the assassin of Willem the Silent, Balthasar Gérard, was kept before sentencing.

Up the stairway and immediately behind the heavy wooden entrance doors is the Vierschaar, with a decorative painting of the Judgment of Solomon by Pieter van Bronckhorst.

City Hall, Markt, Delft. The building with the red shutters dates back to 1618-20, while the belfry is much older and is covered in expensive Belgian limestone.
The old city hall burned in 1618, and since Hendrik de Keyser was working across the Markt at the Nieuwe Kerk, he was asked to design a new one.