The old Coburg town hall stood in the churchyard next to the Morizkirche. The new town hall was first mentioned in the town register in 1414. It was built in the south of the market as a council and department store. Craftsmen and tradesmen also had their places of work in the late Gothic building. The western cellar dates from this period. In the following centuries, extensive extensions and reconstructions were carried out.
From 1577 to 1580, the stonemason and master builder Hans Schlachter built a new eastern wing next to the Gothic Old Town Hall, which reached as far as Ketschengasse. Dendrochronologically, the gable roof structure of the east wing was dated to the years 1577/78. It has a span of about 15.0 meters, a height of about 9.6 meters, a length of about 14.6 meters and a slope of about 52 degrees. The construction consists of 17 rafters with three tenoned collar beam layers.[1] The Renaissance town hall, a four-storey building, was given, among other things, a large hall and a so-called Coburg bay window on Ketschengasse, on which there is also a portrait of Hans Schlachter. In 1579, the Coburg city architect Paul Weißmann added a stair tower to the group of buildings in the inner courtyard, which was equipped with a stone spiral staircase.
The next extensive renovation was carried out from 1750 to 1752. The two buildings were given a Rococo facade with coloured plaster and were combined under a three-storey hipped mansard roof. A triangular gable decorated with a figure of Mauritius, which divides the facade into three times four axes, was placed in the middle of the building.
The last fundamental renovation was overseen by the Coburg city architect Max Böhme from 1901 to 1904. Among other things, a wide balcony with a lattice parapet was added in the middle of the building above the ground floor. The previously plain ground floor façade was redesigned with neo-baroque elements and the entrance and a staircase leading to the second floor with a square stairwell were rebuilt. In addition, the floor plan of the service rooms underwent major changes.