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Location: Tienen, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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1. City Park – Oplinter Church loop from Tienen

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2. City Park – Town Hall loop from Tienen

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3. Sint-Hymelinus Spring – Rozendaalbeekvallei Pond loop from Tienen

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Katrien

February 12, 2022

There is no clarity about the exact date on which the first town hall was built. The current town hall is certainly not the first town hall. Over the centuries, Tienen has had three city centers. In the Frankish period, the center was located in the current station district. The second center was located on the current Veemarkt. The first town hall is said to have been erected there, around 1380, at the height of the current deanij. This building was partially destroyed in 1589.

After the destruction of Tienen in 1635, when the town hall and the archives went up in flames, the city center moved to the current Grote Markt. In the meantime, several buildings served as town halls until the town council bought a patrician house in Flemish Renaissance style from the Immens family in 1711.

The city architect François Drossaert designed a new, neoclassical facade for the house in 1835. The town hall is now reminiscent of a Greek temple. The front building consists of a gallery supported by six bluestone pillars. Above the windows, with a triangular pediment, are round niches with seven gilded busts of historical figures: Emperor Charles V, painter Pieter Paul Rubens, painter Antoon Van Dijck, painter - architect Wenceslas Couberger, founder of anatomy Vesalius, humanist Justus Lipsius and musician André Ernest Gretry. Six Corinthian columns support the cornice.

In 1897 the town hall was enlarged for the first time with the purchase of the adjacent house Nihoul, located along the Grote Markt. With a second purchase 75 years later, that of the Delacroix house, on the corner of the Peperstraat, a considerably enlarged town hall was opened in 1979.

Source: toerisme.tienen.be/stadhuis-4

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September 6, 2024

Short version: The town hall of Tienen is originally a 17th century patrician house that was renovated in 1835 by Frans Drossaert in neoclassical style.

Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Town hall Tienen, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/42849

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September 6, 2024

History: The magistrates of Tienen are said to have resided in different places over the centuries. This was mainly the result of the destruction of successive town halls by plundering, wars and fires. When the destruction of the building was too great, the former site was abandoned and a strategically better situated location was chosen.

The first town hall was built around 1380 on the Veemarkt, which was the centre of the city at that time. This building was completely destroyed during the Fury of the French and the Dutch in 1635. The second town hall was built right next to the old one. In 1647, the city council moved into the complex.

Barely fifty years after it was put into use, the building was no longer adequate; people wanted a more spacious and prestigious town hall. The centre of the city had in the meantime moved from the Veemarkt to the Grote Markt, which is why this was chosen as the location for the new town hall. For the third town hall, the city council's eye fell on a stately patrician house in Renaissance style on the Grote Markt, which was built by the Goossens family in the 1650s. From 1711, the house was rented by the city council and served as a town hall. In 1717, the city finally bought the house.

On the orders of the city council, the facade of the former patrician house was demolished in 1835 and the building components were sold. Frans Drossaert was commissioned to design a new facade for the town hall. It became a neoclassical facade. The interior was also adapted: the halls, cabinets and the hall of the town hall were decorated in Empire style. The town hall was subsequently expanded several times: in 1861 a caretaker's house was added to the Sackstraete or Stadhuisgang, in 1897 the city council bought the adjacent house Nihoul on the Grote Markt, which was converted into office space in 1916, in 1918 three houses were bought on the Sackstraete and in the 1970s the house Delacroix on the corner of Peperstraat was purchased.

Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Town Hall Tienen, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/42849

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1. City Park – Oplinter Church loop from Tienen

2. City Park – Town Hall loop from Tienen

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