The town hall in Görlitz was built primarily for the Silesian Music Festival in Görlitz. The building, which is currently closed, has already served as a film set among others for the filming of "The Grand Budapest Hotel".
The town hall was planned and built primarily for the Silesian Music Festivals, which were first held in 1876 in the at that time Hirschberg and from 1878 to 1942 in Görlitz. The construction began in 1906 according to plans by the architect Bernhard Sehring. The Art Nouveau building was inaugurated in October 1910. The hall building has large basket-arched windows and a flat gabled entrance area with vestibule. The Sauer organ, which bears the name of its builder, is located on the rear wall of the hall above the stage steps. The concert organ has 72 sounding voices and four manuals and pedals. The organ is considered to be the only originally preserved concert organ with a late-Romantic timbre. The two-storey wings on the long side contain the cloakrooms and the side entrances for the stalls and the gallery. The rear section facing the garden houses the restaurant and banquet hall. Putti and vases in cast stone occupy the eaves zones of the various levels of the richly structured building in time with the facade divisions. The town hall was designed for 2000 visitors and for choirs, orchestras and organs up to a thousand strong. Alongside the concert hall of 1876 and the Wilhelmtheatre of 1889, this was the third building for demanding large-scale musical events. In 1996, the tradition of the Silesian Music Festivals was resumed and continued every two years until the closure of the town hall in 2005.
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