Museum Of City History, Leipzig, Germany Stock Photography

The Old Guildhall of Leipzig host the Leipzig Museum of Local History. The Old Town Hall is the heart of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum in one the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in Germany. Hieronymus Lotter, who lived from 1497-1580, master builder to the Electors, Mayor of Leipzig was the man who directed the construction of the Altes Rathaus in 1556 on the foundations of the previous late Gothic town hall first built in 1480 in the street Am Loche.