[1] The city council wanted to meet an old demand when it announced a design competition for a new building in 1890.

Of the five entries received, the jury awarded the first prize to Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos for their design, which were nominated with not terrible height or depth.

This conviction leads me to a running in life, whose sole purpose is to pave the way for the formation of the Hungarian formal language",[1] he wrote in the Művészet Journal in 1906.

[1] (Lechner was progressive on this issue because the ceramics are rather durable, riched in color and washable than the gypsum castings.

[1] The Kecskemét people, who were initially averse to the new town hall, called Árpád the Árpádka armor-plated warrior.

Portraits in relief of Nikola IV Zrinski, Emeric Thököly, Matthias Corvinus, John Hunyadi, Stephen I of Hungary, Franz Joseph I of Austria are placed in the building.

There were two main aspects that played a part in choosing the theme: join to Kecskemét and be worthy of celebrating the 1,000 years of existence of the country.

After several suggestions, two frescoes were finally realized: one depicting the blood oath, the most important event of the Pusztaszer assembly.

The plans of the two sequences of events, which were far away from each other, were not realized, and instead, the other two wall surfaces, divided by windows and doors, were depicted in the form of the great figures of our history.