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The Old City Hall ((クロアチア語:Stara gradska vijećnica)) is a complex of three adjacent buildings located in the Gradec neighbourhood in Zagreb, Croatia. The three buildings were joined in the late 19th century and since then, the complex has served as the place where all sessions of the city assembly are held. ==History== The earliest mention of the site dates from the 15th century, when a house on the same location was referred as "the Gradec city council building", and in 1614 the Gradec magistrate Jakov Gasparini had the house adapted into a town hall. According to historical records, in 1787 the building had eight rooms, a kitchen, three jails, two shops and a cellar.〔 In 1803 the municipal authorities bought the adjacent building owned by count Adam Oršić, in order to expand the town hall.〔 In 1832 local merchant Kristofor Stanković had won the main prize at the Vienna lottery and then decided to invest his winnings in building a city theatre.〔 City authorities then added a second floor to Oršić's one-story house, torn down the original town hall and bought two land lots in today's Freudenreichova Street, which cleared enough space for the construction of a theatre, for which the cornerstone was laid on 12 August 1833.〔 The theatre building, which was originally called "City theatre" () and later "People's theatre" () was a one-story building with triple doors on Saints Cyril and Methodius Street, which featured a ballroom and a long gallery.〔 The Croatian language was first heard in the theatre during an intermezzo of a German production, when Ljudevit Gaj's reveille "Još Hrvatska ni propala" was performed, and the first play in Croatian, the ''Juran and Sofia or The Turks under Sisak: Heroic Play in Three Acts'' () by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, was performed there on 10 June 1840.〔 The first Croatian opera, ''Love and Malice'' () by Vatroslav Lisinski, was also performed there on 28 March 1846.〔 The ballroom also hosted a number of historically important sessions of the Croatian Parliament, most notably the one held on 23 October 1847 in which the parliament made Croatian language the official language spoken in the parliament.〔 In 1895 the new theatre building was opened (the present-day Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb) in the Lower Town area, and the theatre was moved there.〔 Municipal government then took over the abandoned building and converted it in 1897.〔 The city hall and the theatre building were merged, and the ballroom was converted to host sessions of the city assembly.〔 In 1910-11 an additional two-story building in Kuševićeva Street was added and in 1941 rooms in the attic space were converted into offices.〔 In 1958 the city government moved to their present-day building at Stjepan Radić Square but the old town hall continued to host city assembly sessions.〔 The building underwent restoration between 1968 and 1975, including large-scale conservation work done on the council hall and the three smaller halls on the first floor and two wedding halls on the second floor.〔 In 1993 some municipal services were moved back to the old city hall building, including the urban planning institute's statistics department and the institute for the protection of cultural and natural heritage.〔 In 1998 wedding halls were moved to the ground floor and in their former place on the second floor halls for special occasions named ''Kaptol'' and ''Grič'' were installed.〔 The ground floor today houses the Kristofor Stanković Art Gallery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old City Hall (Zagreb)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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