The City Hall of Borgloon is a city hall in the Belgian city of Borgloon, built as a mansion with a corner tower in 1680. One enters the city hall through a six-bay arched arcade. In this arcade a blue stone has been placed with the titles of Robert Ernest d'Argenteau, a former viscount of the castle of Loon.
In the 11th century, a building in Rhine-Westphalian style stood here as the oldest residence of the counts of Loon, hence Grevenhuis as an alternative name for the town hall. In the Middle Ages, the town hall served as a meeting place for the bench of aldermen, the guilds and crafts.
The town hall shows all the elements of the Maas style in Limburg: a brick construction, cross windows, bluestone layers, scaffolding holes, window and door frames in bluestone or marl sandstone and relief arches above the windows. The decoration is kept simple. The facade is clear and simple.
The wedding hall refers to Loon's past: the stained glass windows show the coats of arms of the ten Loon towns (Borgloon, Beringen, Bilzen, Bree, Hamont, Hasselt, Herk-de-Stad, Maaseik, Peer and Stokkem). You will also find stained glass windows with the blazons of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. A 12th-century treasury has also been preserved in which the privileges of the town and the guilds were kept. A torture device (a wooden block in which hands and feet were tied) used in witch trials is another relic of the past.
The statue of Mary, placed in a niche on the corner of the building, refers to the year 1676. The plague then caused the death of 167 inhabitants of Loon.
The town hall has been a protected monument since 1935.