City Museum | Old Town Hall

The Old Town Hall was built in 1470. In contrast to town halls in comparable towns, it is relatively small and has no open basement for sales purposes, as the market in Sindelfingen was located outside the town walls in front of the Upper Gate. The town hall was a meeting place for the court and council, a place of employment for municipal officials and was used for festivities by civil servants and citizens. Weapons and fire-fighting equipment were also kept here. Due to a lack of space, the town erected an additional building opposite in 1538 (Lange Straße 11, known as the "Amtshaus") and built a house directly next to the town hall in 1592, where the town's salt supply was kept for a time ("Salzhaus"). In 1874, the two buildings were connected by a common staircase.

After the town council moved to the Middle Town Hall in 1845, the Old Town Hall and the Salt House served as schools or were rented out to private individuals for over 100 years. Immediately after the Second World War, the town council decided to convert the building into a cultural center, which was completed in 1957/58. The newly opened town museum, town library, music school and adult education center now found their place here. Since 1973, the ensemble of the Old Town Hall and the Salt House has been reserved solely for the town museum.