The present city hall is the third building in the same place with the same function; The first building of modest design was built in 1728, followed by a second building of the same size as the present hall, designed by István Vedres at the beginning of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Then in 1879 a flood destroyed almost the entire city and filled the square, so the building became too low and unsuitable, Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos designed another floor and a slender central tower on the original foundation, and Emperor Franz Joseph inaugurated The neo-baroque town hall of 1883.