The town hall in Heilbronn is located roughly in the center of the historic center of Heilbronn. Its main building is the main part of the Old Town Hall, which was rebuilt after its destruction in World War II. A four-wing, modern building complex is attached to this, which encloses the ruin of the old city archive from the 18th century, which has been transformed into a hall of honor.
The town hall is located on the northern edge of the market square, which is lined by other very old buildings in addition to the old town hall building with the Kilian's Church and the Käthchenhaus. Lohtorstraße (formerly Judengasse) is located at the rear of the town hall complex.
An older town hall building near the church fountain (Siebenröhrenbrunnen) is described (“around 1535 an even older town hall building near the church fountain was destroyed by fire”). The story of a town hall in Heilbronn, which we know today, begins with the mention of a town hall on Kirchbrunnenstrasse, with Kilian's Church in the area of the west tower and an older market square further west. In contrast, today's neighboring market square was initially built over with a farm yard. The building of today's Heilbronn town hall on Kaiserstraße, which was destroyed in the war, once bordered the Kieselmarkt, where Lammgasse and Lohtorstraße (formerly Judengasse), two historical main streets of the market town, met. With the synagogue (1357), the ritual baths and the cemetery of Heilbronn Jews, the Kieselmarkt was the center of the Jewish community in Heilbronn in the late Middle Ages. After the city ban for Jews in the late 15th century, the area was acquired by the imperial city of Heilbronn and built over.
During the post-war reconstruction, only the exterior architecture of the main part of the old town hall was restored. This included his gallery and the astronomical art clock.