Old Town Hall of Berchem

Former town hall from 1847, see inscription in the crown molding "MDCCCXXXXVII", on the site of the older town hall. Built in neoclassical style. Used as a municipal school in the 1860s. Square building with three bays and two floors, featuring a central risalit under a truncated tent roof (tiles, ridge perpendicular to the street) with an open octagonal wooden lantern crowning from 1949 under a bell-shaped roof. Restored in the late 1970s. Plastered facade. Profiled plastered framing for the round-arched windows, formerly barred openings on the ground floor, and rectangular upper windows. Central risalit with corner blocks; door placed in the portico bay, crowning balcony, and large door window under the crown molding with date. Council chamber on the upper floor decorated with eight stained glass windows of coats of arms. To the south, a covered former marketplace with its upper part used as storage. Wing of two floors with plastered wall surfaces with crown moldings and facade bands under two gable roofs and a central section under a flat roof (tiles, ridge parallel to the street). The ground floor is open as a gallery, ten cast iron columns support a profiled series of round arches of eight + one arch with blind arch fields. Upper floor with eight + one rectangular window in profiled framing. DECRITS M. 1988: Construction history of the neoclassical town hall of the municipality of Berchem (Kluisbergen), Annalen Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van Ronse and the Tenement of Inde XXXVII, Ronse, 217-221. DEVOS P. 1982: The town halls of East Flanders, Inventory of the Art Heritage of East Flanders, XVI, volume I, Ghent, 500-503.

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