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Katarzyna Darecka Anna Frąckowska Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk

he Main Town Hall in Gdańsk was its heyday, at the turn of the 16th and 17th T built at the end of the 14th century century, the interiors on the first floor of the as the official building of the municipal -au Gothic part of the Town Hall were refur- thorities. The most important public offi- bished and given a more stately appearan- ces were located here, such as: the Kämme- ce, as were some of the rooms on the second rei-Kasse (Pol. Kamlaria, city finance offi- floor and in the Renaissance wings. They ce) the chancellery, the municipal archives included primarily: the Great Hallway, the containing the most important documents, Great Council Hall, the Small Council Hall and the Weta Court. The Municipal Coun- and the Kamlaria. Several outstanding ar- cil, the City Civil-Criminal Court, and the tists were engaged to work on decorating Third Order (Pol. Trzeci Ordynek), i.e. repre- the halls in the Town Hall. It is particularly sentatives of the common people of Gdańsk worth mentioning the painters: Hans Vrede- in the municipal authorities, also used to man de Vries, Anton Möller, Izaac van den hold meetings here. The Town Hall was the Blocke; the sculptor Willem van der Meer, seat of the municipal authorities from the and the woodcarver, Simon Hörl. The Gre- 14th century up until the beginning of the at Council Hall, above all, acquired an ela- 20th century without interruption. During borate decor, worthy of Gdańsk’s high rank this time it was enlarged and rebuilt several and standing. In the second half of the 18th times. The decor and furnishings changed century this decor was further supplemen- in line with the changing styles in art and ted with paintings by Beniamin Schmidt. architecture. These consisted of details and In the 19th and early 20th centuries the works of art of the highest order, as well as Town Hall’s interiors also housed histo- other more modest pieces which bore wit- ric details transferred from townhouses in ness to the skills of the former craftsmen, Gdańsk that were being rebuilt at the time, as well as to the prevailing tastes of the resi- thus enabling these details to be preserved. dents of Gdańsk. They included a stone portal and arcade The furnishings in the rooms of the Town from a townhouse located at ul. Chlebnicka Hall were changed, supplemented, moved 11, and a carved wooden door-leaf from the around and adapted several times in order Ferber family townhouse at ul. Długa 28. 1 to meet its current needs and functions. In 1857; Puttner 1906; Mellin 1966, pp. 279–291; Domagała 1978, pp. 25–64; Klamann 1980, pp. 36–43; Iwanoyko 1 For the more important literature in which the furnishings 1986; Betlejewska 2001; Grzybkowska 2003, pp. 31–56. and decor of the Town Hall are described, see: Hoburg

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The representative part of the Town Hall: the city’s monuments.4 He recognized that the Great Hallway, the Great and Small Co- the only way to achieve this was by disman- uncil Halls (popularly known as the Red tling the works of art and the decor and Hall and Winter Hall), the Great Hall of Ju- transporting them to places located outside stice (formerly the Great Weta Hall), the of Gdańsk. In his recommendations, he in- former Kamlaria and Cash Depository, were dicated which objects would be dismantled open to visitors, for a small fee, througho- and the specifications that should be met in ut almost the entire 19th century.2 At the the designated storage sites. He also speci- same time, they still served as the seat of the fied how photographic documentation, dra- municipal authorities. The part open to the wings and moulds should be prepared and public was often referred to as the ‘Muni- how objects to be dismantled should be mar- cipal Museum’ (Ger. Stadtmuseum) becau- ked so that they could be easily reassembled se in the years 1863–1870 the Society of the at a later stage. He recommended that deta- Friends of Art in Gdańsk (Ger. Kunstvere- ils of the permanent decor which could not in zu Danzig) also displayed here the col- be dismantled should be secured in situ, or lections it had purchased for a future mu- they were to be enclosed or walled up. The seum which was eventually established in architect Jakob Deurer (1897–1960) became the buildings of the former Franciscan Mo- the representative of Keibel’s team, having nastery and City Gymnasium. arrived in Gdańsk in June 1943. He colla- borated with Erich Volmar (1887–1975) – Evacuation also an architect and the principal conserva- During the Second World War, due to fear tor from the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia that allied air strikes might target the city area. The safeguarding work undertaken in and because of the bad experiences of other Gdańsk lasted from October 1943 to Janu- cities (including Cologne, Lübeck and Ro- ary 1945; approximately twenty employees stock), the German authorities appoin- were involved. Twenty-four volumes of do- ted a special team responsible for drawing cumentation were drawn up, some of which up and implementing a plan to protect contained photographs of where the histo- Gdańsk’s cultural heritage from wartime ric objects were hidden. Willi Drost (1892– damage. The team was officially nominated 1964), the then-director of the Municipal in 1942 and, on behalf of the Prussian Mi- Museum (Stadtmuseum, now the National nistry of Finance, was tasked with safegu- Museum), and conservator of art and de- arding the city against the effects of possi- corative arts (Denkmalpfleger für Werke der ble bombing raids.3 It was headed by Fritz Bildenden Kunst und des Kunstgewerbes) in Keibel, the then-chief government advisor the Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Dan- of state and building superintendent, who zig), was also involved in the work of safe- drew up guidelines outlining how to save 4 A copy of Keibel’s typescript is housed in the collec- 2 Gliński mps. tion of the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 3 Domańska 1979, pp. 127–130; Bakun 2015, pp. 155–157. Gdańsk, see Keibel 1942.

» 3 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… guarding the artworks of Gdańsk. The di- many photographs of various views of the smantled artefacts were numbered on the Hallway and the spiral staircase. The Great back with red paint; sometimes additional Council Hall, being the most representative notes were attached. They were then pac- room of all, was documented by Drost in the ked into wooden crates and transported out greatest detail since it contained the most va- of Gdańsk – to Kaszuby and Żuławy (the luable and elaborate furnishings in the entire historic Eastern Pomerania regions of north- building. All the details: the paintings, por- -western Poland). Part of the documentation tals, cornices, benches, and in turn the frag- drawn up at that time was destroyed during ments of the walls, were photographed to- wartime activities in Gdańsk; some copies gether with the cards containing handwrit- were taken to Germany where they were ten numbers. In the remaining rooms: the kept by Jakob Deurer’s son – Wolfgang, Hallway, the Winter Hall, part of the Kamla- who gave them to Poland in 1977 and 1978.5 ria and Cash Depository, the negatives show Many of the pre-war photographs of historic paintings and elements of the woodwork and objects in Gdańsk were taken to Germany carvings which were made in the 16th–17th in 1945, chiefly to Marburg. centuries. From the detailed photographs it It may seem strange that the documenta- can be concluded that the dismantling of the tion and lists that are currently available con- historic objects, at least those in the Red tain no mention of the evacuation of histo- Hall, was carried out in accordance with the rical objects from the Town Hall. This may aforementioned guidelines. However, there be because it was still being used as an admi- are no descriptions of the photographs, no nistrative building at that time (due to dif- list of the dismantled objects, no inventory ficult conditions caused by the war and the drawings or diagrams indicating their pla- approaching front-line, the authorities’ main cement within the rooms. This part of the priority was to maintain an efficiently opera- documentation may not have been prepared ting administrative system and not the safe- due to the speed at which the work had to be guarding of works of art and monuments) carried out, or it may have been lost or it may or the fact that the decor was dismantled at be in one of the archives; however, it has not the very last minute, without full documen- yet been found.7 tation being prepared (?). Surviving photo- After the details in the Red Hall were di- graphs of this operation testify to at least smantled, they were marked with red paint some partial documentation about the eva- 7 It is worth noting that the above-mentioned documentation compiled by Jakob Deurer included 24 numbered volumes cuation being prepared. The task was headed (usually devoted to one historic building in Gdańsk). Ho- by W. Drost,6 and not – as in most of the wever, it did not include a table of contents. The author’s set of this documentation, given to Poland by Wolfgang buildings in Gdańsk – by J. Deurer, altho- Deurer and kept at the APG (ref. 1629/1-12, 15-24), does not contain volumes XIII and XIV. In the course of the re- ugh the latter also helped with the documen- search, it was possible to establish that volume XIII on the Artus Court is in the resources of the WUOZ in Gdańsk ting of the details. We know that he took (reference number Deurer 1943/1944, see the volume of the Artus Court in Gdańsk, p. 25). Therefore, it is possible that 5 Domańska 1979, pp. 129–130. the lost volume XIV included the Main Town Hall. This 6 Kilarski 1997, pp. 107–108. matter still requires further research into the background.

» 4 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… on the back – with a digit and a letter – ac- survived, it can be assumed it was most pro- cording to the order in which they appe- bably evacuated, together with the entire ared. For example, the marquetry work on portal, but unfortunately the latter has been the cornices and benches in the Red Hall lost. It is also possible that at the last mo- were marked: 4a, 4b, 4f, 1d, 2d, 2Q, etc. ment only door was taken away because it The digit indicated the wall – each of which was easy to remove. The permanent elements had a separate number – while the letter in- of the decor which could not be dismantled dicated the order in which they were hung, were safeguarded in situ. For example, the most probably starting from the top down- fireplaces and stone posts near the stairca- wards. However, the markings do not cor- se in the Hallway were boarded up. The respond with the cards that are visible on windows in the Red Hall with the beauti- Drost’s photographs. The paintings from the ful neo-Renaissance woodwork, which was ceiling contain only the letters A, B, G, I, R, still extant at that time, were walled in from T, U, V etc.8 The numbering has survived the outside. Some of the windows were pro- to this day, but cannot be seen by visitors. tected from the inside by sandbags.10 Fire There is no information as to whether the extinguishers were also prepared. details evacuated from the other rooms were numbered in a similar manner. Data rela- After 1945: collection, ting to the markings was sometimes men- identification, and storage tioned in postwar conservation documenta- After hostilities ended, work began alrea- tion.9 It is a pity the method was not con- dy in April 1945 to return the artworks to sistent. Had it been, perhaps it may have Gdańsk. The task was undertaken primarily been possible to recreate the entire numbe- by Jan Kilarski (1882–1951) – head of the ring system used for the dismantled arte- Department of Culture of the City Council facts in the Town Hall. in Gdańsk. He collaborated with W. Drost Not all the elements of the decor of the and E. Volmar, who remained in Gdańsk building were evacuated. The wooden cor- until the autumn of 1946. He received from nices from the Winter Hall and the spiral them a list of the places to which the arte- staircase in the Hallway remained in situ. facts had been transported. Kilarski kept There is no information whatsoever about a journal in which he made handwritten no- the evacuation of some of the elements, inc- tes about his trips around the countryside, luding the wainscoting with friezes and the the objects he found and their condition.11 wall cupboards from the Kamlaria, or the He was accompanied by Władysław Brzo- furnishings in the Cash Depository. From sko, Deputy Provincial Conservator of Mo- the Kamlaria, a door-leaf with marquetry, numents. Polish painter Czesław Wierusz- which was part of the decorated portal and -Kowalski (1882–1984)12 also helped with is dated ‘1597’, has survived. Since the door 10 Visible on the photographs dating from 1943–1944, APG 1629/5/049, no. 128. 8 Blocke 1969; Bielaszewska 1969. 11 Kilarski 1945, p. 25. 9 Stankiewicz 1970. 12 Mieszkowski 1997, p. 31.

» 5 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… the transportation of the crates. On 9 June ilable there were no two-leafed carved doors the wainscoting, fleuron details and the pain- in the Main Town Hall. A handwritten note ting Allegory from the ceiling in the Red Hall which reads ‘Town Hall GM’ [Main Town] were returned from Rzucewo near Puck13 can be found alongside items 391 and 392: (this was the main painting today known as ‘timber window frame, polychrome, carved Allegory of Gdańsk), and on 14 June ‘the semi- (R7 Rechtes Fenster links u. rechts) and (R7 -circular paintings from the Town Hall’ inc- Mittelfenster rechts, R5 linkes Ferster recht- luding A. Möller’s Tribute Money were found s)’.18 It is now difficult to ascertain to which in the gallery of the Evangelical Church in elements they referred. They may have come Mierzeszyn near Przywidz. The items were from the carved windows in the Red Hall, first transported to the storehouse in Sopot however these had been walled in for the du- and then – from July 1946 – they were taken ration of the wartime hostilities, and there is to the Conservator’s repository in Gdańsk- no additional information about their evacu- -Oliwa. From the surviving list of rediscove- ation. Perhaps only the carved decorative de- red museum objects that were housed in the tails were dismantled at the very last minute? Conservator’s repository in 1948, it transpi- During the postwar reconstruction work the- res that they occupied eight rooms in a gra- se details were not used and it is not known nary, a shed and a garage.14 The list contains what happened to them. Several other items nine-hundred objects. Several dozen came on this list, for example the carved decora- from the Great Council Hall in the Main tive elements, pieces of the wainscoting, the Town Hall. Entry no. 095 referred to Benia- fleurons, friezes, picture frames, pieces of the min Schmidt’s painting Oratio,15 no. 286 – coat of arms of Gdańsk, door locks, may re- to a detail of the carved wooden cornice,16 fer to the Town Hall, but they may equally item 409 was ‘a fragment of an oak bench, c. well belong to other buildings.19 200 cm (IVd)’, items 730–738 related to a se- The Conservator’s repository in Gdańsk- ries of pieces of marquetry and woodwork -Oliwa contained, and still contains to this and woodcarvings, including the sides deco- day, elements of the furnishings and decor rated with lions that came from the bench from all historical buildings in and around that stood in the Winter Hall, after being Gdańsk. Their correct identification and moved there from the Red Hall.17 Item 124 assignation to a specific building has often – ‘two-leafed carved doors – Gdańsk Town been very difficult and has been going on for Hall’ probably related to the Old Town Hall, many years.20 The aforementioned list da- from the list of iconographic materials ava- ting from 1948 also contains entries concer- ning the crates: ‘unmarked crates’, ‘illegible 13 Kilarski 1945, p. 107. markings’, ‘open crate’ and ‘objects in poor 14 Składnica 1948. 15 Ibid., p. 4. condition’. Alongside the main typewritten 16 Ibid., p. 12. Probably item 285: ‘fragments of the carved wooden wainscoting’ could also apply to this room. 18 Ibid., p. 17. 17 Ibid., p. 28, item. 738: ‘two fragments of back-rests from 19 Ibid., p. 15, items 351–356. benches/carved gilded lions’, refer to the surviving pieces 20 Similar conclusions can be drawn from the experience of the bench from the Red Hall. of the authors and enquiries carried out in the repository.

» 6 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… text are handwritten notes in pencil and in pository in Gdańsk-Oliwa were unsuitable biro, which give an indication of the time- for storing historical artefacts. The rooms -consuming work needed to identify the were unheated; they were not watertight objects. The archives of the National Mu- and so were susceptible to the variable we- seum in Gdańsk (further NMG), the Pro- ather conditions outside – dampness or dry- vincial Conservator of Monuments in Po- ness. There were frequent leaks in the roof, merania (Pomorski Wojewódzki Konserwator as well as break-ins. Zabytków, PWKZ) and the National Heri- tage Board (Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa, State of research into losses NID) all contained surviving reports, star- In the postwar years, during the search ting from 1948, about the transfer of ob- for and subsequent conservation of reco- jects belonging to the furnishings and de- vered objects, reports of what was missing cor of the Main Town Hall to the Gdańsk from the decor and furnishings in the Town branch of the Enterprise of State Workshops Hall were constantly updated. The main for the Conservation of Monuments (Przed- source of knowledge about the artefacts siębiorstwo Państwowe Pracownie Konserwa- were German academic and popular stu- cji Zabytków – further PP PKZ) in order to dies (e.g. guidebooks) on art and architec- undergo conservation work.21 ture in Gdańsk, which appeared from the Items from the Town Hall were also sto- 19th century and contained descriptions red temporarily in other places such as: the with varying degrees of detail and some mo- Museum of Pomerania, the Old Town Hall, dest photographic documentation, as well as the Registry Office, the Presidium of the early iconographic representations, such as Provincial National Council, the Main the prints by Johann Carl Schultz from the Town Hall and the PP PKZ. 2nd half of the 19th century. The resources Not all the evacuated objects were redi- in the State Archives in Gdańsk were also scovered. Some of the details which could gradually explored. Collective comments not be dismantled in time were later found on this subject were published by, among among the ruins. This was the case with the others, Maciej Kilarski in 1996.22 gilded coat of the figure of the king which The first mention of the missing objects surmounted the tower, decorative elements was found in documentation concerning the on the spire, and individual bells of the ori- conservation work, the inventory drawings ginal carillon. Not all the destruction was and plans for the reconstruction of individu- caused by wartime hostilities; a great deal al details of the decor.23 In 1963, a list of all of damage was due to inadequate stora- the elements that were either missing or had ge conditions and the continual movement survived, with an indication of the place of objects from one place to another. The where they were being stored at the time, as storage conditions in the Conservator’s re- 22 Kilarski 1996, pp. 23–35. 23 Including: Wolańska 1967; Stefanowicz 1964, Bielaszew- 21 Składnica 1948, p. 38: Receipt no. 86 dated 11 January 1950. ska 1969.

» 7 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… well as the current state of knowledge, their NMG – a collection of glass plate negati- history, the available iconography, the state ves – and in German research centres: The of conservation, inventorying and planning Herder Institute in Marburg and the Photo- work, was prepared by Maria Wolańska.24 graphic Archives of Art and Architecture at Comprehensive documentation of the the University of Marburg. The continual- wartime losses at the Town Hall (carried ly expanding digital resources of institutions out under such a slogan) dates back to the and commercial bodies are of great help, as 1990s. In 1993 a study by Ludmiła Lebie- are crowdsourced online databases of archi- dzińska was published, which served as an val photographs and postcards, such as tho- information guide on ‘Gdańsk’s disper- se of: National Digital Archives, Foto Pol- sed heritage’.25 In 1998 Alina Szpakiewicz ska, Museum of Pomerania, Ullstein Bild, prepared documentation for the Ministry United Archives, Digitales Bildarchiv des of Culture and Art.26 Both studies list abo- Bundesarchivs and others. ut fifty items from the Town Hall, taking into account the most valuable historical Wartime losses elements of the interiors – paintings, wo- Thanks to the hitherto achievements odwork and carved decorations, and also of conservators, art historians and histo- individual works of craftsmanship. Howe- rians, and to new materials, it was possi- ver, they omit architectural objects, among ble to once again re-examine the question others, and a large part of the newer fur- of the wartime losses of the Main Town nishings and decor. Hall in a more comprehensive manner and From the very start, the iconographic so- also to prepare a study encompassing a far urces played an important role in the study more detailed list of objects, taking into ac- of wartime losses, especially archival photo- count elements which were previously unk- graphs housed in the collections of the Sta- nown or which had been omitted. The -fi te Archives in Gdańsk, the Library of the nal list contains approximately 120 items Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk, as (some of which consist of larger groups well as in the NMG and in the Museum of works of art ranging from just a few, up of Gdańsk (further MG). to several hundred items, such as Dutch ti- At the end of the 1990s, the possibili- les which used to decorate the walls – a to- ty arose of carrying out more detailed and tal of approximately 1000–1200 individu- broader studies on the wartime losses in al items). The total wartime losses of the Gdańsk, thanks to the discovery of new va- Main Town Hall can be divided into four luable sets of archival photographs (some groups: 1) decor and architectural details; of which also related to the evacuation it- 2) historical decor in the interiors; 3) histo- self). These collections were housed in the rical furnishings and 4) furnishings of the building, formerly treated as utilitarian ob- 24 Wolańska 1963. jects, but which are now deemed have hi- 25 Lebiedzińska 1993, pp. 16‒45. 26 Szpakiewicz 1998. storical features.

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The losses can be divided into groups ac- before the war was displayed in the Small cording to the fate that befell the historical Weta Hall), B. Milwitz’s painting Battle objects and a distinction can be made of tho- of Oliwa from the original furnishings of the se which were not evacuated and were lar- Great Weta Hall and the series of paintings gely destroyed (or perhaps partially looted?) by I. van den Blocke for the Small Coun- in 1945. These include: the wooden staircase cil Chamber (four canvases). The only pa- and gallery in the Hallway, the woodwork inting that survived from this series is Pu- and wood carvings in the Winter Hall, the nishment and Reward which was destroyed Great Weta Room, the Kamlaria and Cash by fire to a large degree. It was only possi- Depository; the fireplaces and stoves, the ca- ble to restore it thanks to painstaking con- rillon from the tower, the painted decora- servation work.27 Furthermore, burnt frag- tions, as well as numerous architectural de- ments of characteristic semi-circular frames tails – columns, brackets, keystones, cor- were found in the repository – which co- nices, painted wall and ceiling decorations uld have been the remains of other paintin- and the decorative elements on the exterior gs.28 A considerable part of the comprehen- of the building – the steps leading to the en- sive painted decorations in the Red Hall da- trance of the building, the spire of the tower ting from 1764 and made by B. Schmidt and the figure which surmounted it. (12 of 16 original paintings and mouldin- The second group of losses are objects gs with painted inscriptions to an earlier pa- which were at least partially evacuated, but inted series by H.V. de Vries) remains lost. after the war they could not be found in the Equally painful is the loss of the allegori- places where they had been stored, or these cal painting dating from 1685 from the ce- places were unreachable. This group main- iling in the Great Hallway, which alongsi- ly consists of a long list of paintings – star- de a likeness of Harmony, depicted the coats ting with the most valuable 17th -century of arms of the councillors of Gdańsk – who ones, then the late-19th-century painted de- financed the painting. corations in the Great Weta Hall, the 20th- However, the paintings that were made -century gallery of portraits, as well as works in the next two hundred years cannot be of artistic craftsmanship. overlooked. A significant loss are the pain- The wartime losses have an impact on all ted decorations made at a relatively late sta- the rooms in the Town Hall, but they are ge for the Great Weta Hall (six canvases) – most apparent in those which up until 1944 they are the works of renowned German ar- had retained most of their historical decor tists from the end of the 19th century and and character. An overwhelming loss was are important due to their subject matter that of the invaluable 17th- century paintin- and the fact that they were made specifically gs: A. Möller’s The Miraculous Catch of Fish 27 Rasnowski, Koch 1983. 28 We would like to thank Krystyna Jackowska of the Lib- (which was originally intended for the Mo- rary of the Polish Academy of Science in Gdańsk for this oring Fee Chamber (Komora Palowa) in information. In the years 1971–1976 she was curator of the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk at the Museum of the History the basement of the Town Hall, and which of the City of Gdańsk.

» 9 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… for this interior. They depict a Prussian vi- mentation it was possible to complete the sion of the history of Gdańsk and although missing fragments in the decor of the Red they contain strong propagandistic over- Hall: the cornices on the pillars between tones, their significance in the decoration the windows, elements of the decoration on of the Town Hall cannot be underestima- the window glyphs, fragments of the ben- ted. The portrait of Napoleon I Bonaparte, ches, the auricular-style decorations on the which was presented to the city, should also portal in the Hallway and the individual be added to this list, as well as two small fleurons on the ceiling. However, the mis- studies of Prussian military formations by sing doors decorated with marquetry in the Karl von Höwel of Gdańsk, two portraits passage-way leading from the Great Coun- of Prussian kings, as well as a series of 5 por- cil Hall to the Winter Hall were not recon- traits of Gdańsk mayors (Ger. Oberpräsi- structed. The losses also include the 19th- dents) which used to be on display in the -century woodwork on the four windows in Winter Hall. In the second half of the 19th the Red Hall which were elaborately deco- and early 20th centuries, carved busts were rated and modelled on the decoration of the made to honour several distinguished city hall, as well as interesting constructional so- officials and Prussian military commanders: lutions which were not reconstructed accor- Paul von Hindenburg and August von Mac- ding to their original form during the po- kensen. These, too, are among the wartime stwar rebuilding works. Another significant losses of the Town Hall. loss are the wall fabrics, cushions and other Significant losses also include the histo- accessories made of textiles dating from the rical woodwork and woodcarvings – these second half of the 18th and late 19th cen- works of art were made by the highly skil- turies, which complemented the woodwork. led craftsmen of Gdańsk – they were an in- Whilst the woodwork in the Red Hall tegral part of the building and of huge im- was safely evacuated and largely survived, portance for the appearance of the interiors. the wainscoting and doors in the rema- The most obvious loss is the spiral timber ining rooms probably did not have the same staircase and gallery in the Great Hallway chance of survival. This referred to those in: which were made in the second half of the the Winter Hall, Great Weta Hall, Kamla- 17th century. They were consumed by fire ria and Cash Depository, where some da- (only small relics survived – a fragment ted back to the end of the 16th century and of the central part of the staircase, a stair some to when the interiors of the Town Hall rail and a decorative cornice). Detailed pre- were refurbished in the 1860s and 1890s. -war documentation enabled the faithful re- The doors from the Kamlaria were also production of these splendid monuments lost; these were extremely valuable, elabo- and of the interior’s characteristic appearan- rately carved allegorical doors dating from ce – the surviving relics were also included c 1680, which had been moved here before in the reconstruction work. Similarly, on 1843 from the main portal of the Ferber fa- the basis of surviving analogies and docu- mily’s townhouse.

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In addition to entire sets of interior deco- The list of losses relating to works pro- rations, many fragments of the woodwork duced by craftsmen should also include the and carvings and also the stone decorations 18th-century brass hanging chandelier (so- were also destroyed – most probably due to -called Polenluster) from the Kamlaria and being dismantled, moved around several ti- Cash Depository, three clocks, most proba- mes and being stored improperly. These inc- bly French, 18th-century ones, a small mir- luded: the ends of the auricular ornaments ror in a decorative silver frame, a marble per- on the portal leading to the Red Hall, the petual calendar used in the Kamlaria, a ca- arched stems of the fleurons, the wing of an st-iron fireplace plate and painted fire screen eagle and the head of an angel from the Po- from the Winter Hall, a decorative firepla- lish coat of arms, one of the lions from the ce grille in the Red Hall, a lavabo from the coat of arms of Gdańsk, many profiled moul- Small Weta Hall and several other items. dings from cornices or openwork fragments Another group also included in today’s from the wrought-iron ornaments on the wartime losses is that of the utilitarian fur- coffered ceiling, and many other elements.29 nishings in the Town Hall, which were in- The Main Town Hall’s wartime losses troduced from the end of the 19th centu- also include several dozen lost objects made ry up to the end of the 1920s. These inc- by craftsmen. These are primarily historical lude sets of furniture (tables, chairs, ben- pieces of furniture: tables, benches, chairs, ches) from the Red Hall, White Hall, Win- armchairs, etc. dating from the 17th and ter Hall, Fireplace Room, 20th-century wall 18th centuries, the so-called neo-Gdańsk lamps and chandeliers, tiled stoves, iron sto- products from the 19th and 20th cen- ves, etc. These pieces, which a century ago turies, and utilitarian sets of furniture from were used by officials and treated purely as the early 20th century. The older furnitu- utilitarian items, have today acquired the re was moved around many times from one characteristics of historical objects and are room to another in the Town Hall during examples of items crafted in the spirit of hi- the 19th and 20th centuries, as can be seen storicism and Art Deco. from archival photographs. Unfortuna- The architectural details and their pain- tely we are not able to refer to the accurate ted decorations should be mentioned sepa- lists of these historical moveable furnishin- rately. Due to the shelling, bombing and gs drawn up in the years 1939–1945, nor to then setting fire to the Town Hall, we have earlier ones, nor to any more-detailed pho- irretrievably lost many architectural decora- tographic documentation. Therefore, it is tions – carved columns, cornices, brackets, impossible to draw up a full list of the fur- keystones, vaults and their painted decora- niture that was part of the Town Hall’s fur- tions. We have also lost the painted decora- nishings. Nor are we certain which pieces, tions on the walls (e.g. in the Hallway), fire- if indeed any, were evacuated. places, window frames etc., architectural ce- ramics – sets of Dutch tiles which decorated 29 Herle 1970. the lower part of the walls in the Hallway,

» 11 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… and the hearths in fireplaces. The destroyed survived under the layer of new limewash pa- set of bells and the mechanism of the oldest int. This is evidenced by the fact that during carillon in Gdańsk from the Town Hall to- research work carried out by conservators in wer (of which only three bells survived) are 1964, relics of the paintings were found on an irreparable loss. Finally, the exterior ele- the preserved pieces of plaster.32 This rela- ments of the building were also destroyed: tes to the Hallway, the walls of which were the metal lanterns on the steps leading to almost entirely covered with painted orna- the house, the details on the spire of the to- mental decorations, floral as well as symbo- wer, the figure of the king surmounting the lic figures, the coat of arms of Gdańsk and building, as well as minor elements of the inscriptions. Many other details of the inte- decor: a bowl and fragments of the decora- rior design had never before been classified tive oil lamp on the corner of the building as wartime losses due to their low artistic va- and the three measuring rods hanging on lue. However, it should be emphasized that the front elevation. they did have an impact on the character and Many of the lesser-known lost details aesthetics of the rooms. In the Kamlaria, the of the decor and furnishings could not be de- walls above the central cornice were covered scribed due to the lack of sufficient data and with quite dark marbleization which created iconography: the doors in the former offices a specific background for the paintings that in the Renaissance wings of the Town Hall were hung there (as opposed to the white- are an example of this. It is known from the washed walls commonly used after the war). literature that they contained inscriptions re- Some of the rooms had decorative parquet ferring to moral principles and good work.30 flooring made from various types of wood, We know almost nothing about the fur- for example in the Kamlaria and the Cash nishings, decor and appliances in these ro- Depository, which was also completely and oms. However, on the walls of the tower, ri- irretrievably destroyed. ght next to the exit to the upper terrace, the- Doubts were also raised about including re were purportedly three metal plaques with details of the exterior architecture on the list engraved inscriptions commemorating the of wartime losses. While the figure of the repairs to the figure of the king carried out at king from the top of the Tower and the set the beginning of the 18th century.31 of carillon bells do seem to be an obvious When preparing the list of wartime los- loss, the metal and gilded leaves which cove- ses for the Main Town Hall, it was difficult red the spire of the main tower and the small to determine whether some details should corner towers, do not. Going further, one be included. This related to, among other could also mention the details of the stone things, the painted wall decorations. Some decor, for example on the walls of the attic. of them were known to have been painted So where should the line regarding wartime over before the war – however, they had losses be drawn for the Town Hall? It is as

30 Hoburg 1857, pp. 51–52. 31 Ibid., pp. 56–58. 32 Dokumentacja 1965.

» 12 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… much a work of architecture as its decor and Hall. None of the original sculptures survi- furnishings are works of art and craftsman- ved, nor did any documentation of what ship, which are often inextricably linked they looked like. The windows in the Red with the architecture. The line is not fixed Hall, decorated with neo-Renaissance and it was finally drawn in a completely sub- marquetry and woodcarving, and the deco- jective manner by the authors of this study. rative window glyphs, which are known to- day from archival photographs, were not re- Conservation, constructed according to the originals. To- reconstruction and installation day, it is difficult to ascertain whether the The reassembly of the surviving historic in- photographs which show these elements teriors at the Town Hall had to be preceded were known about at the end of the 1940s by comprehensive restoration and partial re- and 1950s and if the reason they were not construction work. Above all, it was neces- reconstructed was therefore precisely becau- sary to prepare the interiors, carry out all ne- se of the lack of any iconography. cessary building and conservation work in The bench which had stood along the nor- them, reconstruct the damaged vaults, the thern wall of this room before the Second ceilings, the architectural woodwork, floors, World War was not reconstructed either; wa- flooring and plasterwork. Due to the exten- inscoting was installed in its place even tho- sive damage and lack of historic furnishings, ugh there had never been any there before. only a few rooms were selected in which to The motifs used in the marquetry exactly re- display the historic decor and furnishings. peat the patterns used in surviving fragments These obviously included the Great Coun- of the original wainscoting. By installing wa- cil Hall, the Hallway and the Small Council inscoting instead of a bench it was possible Hall. The totally wrecked timber construc- to access the passage with a staircase conce- tion of the ceiling in the Great Council Hall aled in the thickness of the aforementioned was replaced with one made of reinforced wall. In the Middle Ages this passage led to concrete. Work on the movable furnishings the cellar and the back exit of the Town Hall at the Town Hall was begun already in 1949 – in early modern times, when it was no lon- starting with the paintings from the Red ger used, it was covered over with fabric and Hall, followed by elements of the ceiling a bench. The fate of the door-leaf, elabora- and wainscoting. All losses and missing pie- tely decorated with marquetry, which came ces in the carved and wood details were fil- from the portal in the Kamlaria, is really in- led in and reconstructed. These elements teresting. Only the aforementioned door-leaf were faithfully recreated based on preserved survived. Because the portal in the Kamlaria fragments or available iconography, but if was not reconstructed, the door was moved there was a shortage of these, then new, in- to the Red Hall and installed at the entrance dividually prepared designs were sometimes to the Winter Hall. As a result, the entrance used. Such was the case of the little heads had to be remodelled and made narrower, be- that once adorned the cornice in the Winter cause the original door had been wider.

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Another example of the inconsistency handed over by the German historian Erich of the reconstructed details is the late 16th- Kayser (1893–1968) – it transpired that the -century bench with sides decorated with reconstructed king looked somewhat dif- carved lions and marquetry on the back- ferent.34 The original had a slimmer build, -rest and the front panel beneath the seat with more pronounced knees, arms and el- (this bench was originally part of the de- bows. The greatest differences, however, cor of the Great Council Hall; it was on were visible in the treatment of the face; the display in the Winter Hall from at least the older version was more schematic, geometri- end of the 19th century). Only the side wal- cal, simplified and devoid of any expression. ls of the bench have survived. The seat was In turn, the crown on the original figure was reconstructed, but it was shorter and simpler made with far more attention to detail –the in form, without any decoration. shape of the leaves was carefully defined, When analysing archival photographs, and they were also engraved. modern computer techniques are very help- In accordance with the generally applica- ful. Without the possibility of digitally en- ble rules for the conservation of monuments hancing scans of photographs, sharpening none of the paintings in the Town Hall was the images, making them brighter, adjusting reconstructed.35 Nor did the the 18th-cen- the contrast, and enlarging them, it would tury mouldings with painted inscriptions, not be possible to recognize many of the de- under H.V. de Vries’ paintings in the Red tails. Such was the case with the aforemen- Hall undergo reconstruction. tioned bench – the details in the marquetry were virtually unrecognizable without the Contemporary dilemmas use of these photographic techniques. At present it is difficult to establish the -da The postwar history of the reconstruc- ting of some of the lost details of the wo- tion of the figure of King Zygmunt August, odwork and woodcarvings at the Town Hall from the pinnacle of the Town Hall tower, due to the lack of sufficient data about them; can also testify to the importance of pho- known facts do not explain the uncertain- tographs taken in 1943–1944. The figure ties on every occasion. This applies to the was remade in 1950 and was to be a symbol decoration on the window glyphs in the Red of the reconstruction of Gdańsk. The design Hall, the ceiling in the Kamlaria and the drawings for the reconstruction work were wall cupboards in the Cash Depository. So- made by Kazimierz Macur (1915–2001) ba- metimes an analysis of the decorative moti- sed on the iconographic materials available fs is inadequate and only a closer examina- at that time – i.e. the 19th-century prints by tion with use of technical solutions makes it Johann Carl Schultz.33 However, after a set possible to determine the dating of a detail of detailed photographs was found in the more accurately. This was the case with the Herder Institute in 2008– which had been

34 Darecka 2011, pp. 30–34, no. 4. 33 Macur 2016, p. 58. 35 In practice these rules are not always applied in Gdańsk.

» 14 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… window frames in the Red Hall.36 The ela- of, for example, a carpentry joint or a socket borately decorated carvings and marquetry remaining in its place. It is worth emphasi- used in the decorative elements were preci- zing that all the elements of the carpentry in se copies of the motifs in the wainscoting this hall were made to the highest standards made by S. Hörl at the end of the 16th cen- of that craft. Furthermore, J.C. Schultz’s tury.37 The double-frame casement structure print dating from 1855 does not show any of the frames, the type of glazing with large decorations on the glyphs. Finally, the de- panes of glass, the pivot hinges and meeting coration on the bas-relief convex part of the stiles which concealed the espagnolette loc- cornice differs in character from that on the king devices used to close the windows, are cornices made by S. Hörl. One of the moti- evidence that these details were made later – fs used by him was a coat of arms. Due to after the mid 19th century.38 insufficient data, it is now difficult to de- The dating of the wainscoting on the gly- termine to whom it belonged and what phs of these windows can be similarly de- was represented on the shield. The central fined – i.e. end of the 16th century or se- part – consists of a leafless branch of a tree cond half of the 19th century. This large di- or a tree-trunk; the top part has three de- screpancy in the dating is due to a number tails: a head in profile, a tree and a third of reasons. The details are installed in neo- one that is indecipherable. A coat of arms -Renaissance joinery of a double-frame ca- does not appear anywhere else in the corni- sement construction dating from the mid ces dating from the end of the 16th centu- 19th century. At the end of the 16th centu- ry. To summarize the above analysis, altho- ry, the windows were single casements set ugh the wainscoting on the glyphs of the in narrow frames, which took up less spa- windows exactly repeats the motifs on the ce, but the glyphs had to be wider. Additio- wainscoting in the Red Hall dating from nally, the end of the cornice, to which the 1595, there is no certainty that it was made glyph should be connected, does not show at the same time. It is more likely that it was any trace of having been joined by means made together with the double-frame case-

36 Darecka 2016, pp. 200–201. ment window joinery. 37 The transom, in the form of a cornice, had a carved decora- The situation regarding the ceiling in the tion, similar to the cornice running along the length of the wall, halfway up, composed of tendrils with intertwined Kamlaria is even more complicated.39 On half-figures of humans and angels. The meeting stile was in the form of a small pilaster with a high base, profiled at the bottom, with marquetry above with composed of geo- 39 In 1600 S. Hörl was paid for ‘the ceiling which leads to the metrical and ribbon motifs similar to the marquetry on the Kamlaria’ (Kaczor 2008, p. 6: entry dated 24 April and wainscoting under the windows. The column was channel- 28 August 1600). It is not certain whether the ceiling was led. The top had the form of a corbel with a woman’s head, made specifically for this interior, or whether it was the like on the cornice on the wall. one designed by H.V. de Vries and made by S. Hörl for the 38 The box-type construction began to be used in the mid Great Council Hall, after plans were made to install a new 19th century, glazing with a large pane of glass for the ent- one there made by I. van den Blocke. Tadeusz Domagała ire window was used from the 1st half of the 19th century (1978 p. 38) mentions such a plan; however, he also writes and in windows with glazing bars from the 2nd quarter that the Council Hall and Kamlaria had identical dimensi- of the 18th century. Pivot hinges were used in Poland from ons (which is incorrect). The latter hypothesis seems un- the 18th century, and meeting stiles in the form of columns likely. The Kamlaria was smaller than the Council Hall, appeared from the 18th century, while the espagnolette because at that time there was a brick wall in the northern locks from the second half of the 19th century. After: Taj- part which divided off a narrow corridor with groin vaults. chman 1993, pp. 18–19. Therefore, it was 195 cm shorter than the Red Hall. The

» 15 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… the available iconography of this room – lier date, perhaps using brown – as was then J.C. Schultz’s prints of 1858 and W. Drost’s often the case, which is why it appears to be photographs from c. 1943 – there is a visible dark and monochromatic on known archi- coffered ceiling, with geometrical divisions, val photographs. a rather flat, not very elaborate ceiling more Furthermore, the question of ownership reminiscent of those from the 19th centu- of a building’s furnishings is also difficult ry.40 However, after carrying out a compa- to establish. In the 19th century, some ele- rative analysis with the ones visible on ments of the furnishings were transferred to H.V. de Vries’ paintings, it is possible to ha- the Town Hall from various places and in- zard a guess that the ceiling in the Kamlaria stitutions, for example in 1859 a table with may also have been designed by de Vries. His a porphyry top decorated with mother-of- ceilings were not as spacious, richly profiled -pearl43 was transferred from the seat of the and decorative as some of the others from Municipal Library (Stadtbibliothek) in the that time – even those made in Gdańsk.41 former St James’ Church. In the 20th cen- The details visible on several of de Vries’ pa- tury, the furnishings were moved between intings in the form of gilded pendants on the Town Hall and the Municipal Mu- the ceilings, are also repeated on the ceiling seum (Stadtmuseum) and the newly esta- in the Kamlaria, and are also known from blished Regional Museum of the History other European plafonds dating from that of Gdańsk (Staatliches Landesmuseum für time, for example in the Castle in Trento. In Danziger Geschichte) in Gdańsk-Oliwa – 1857, Karl Hoburg wrote that ‘traces of the these took the form of both loans and trans- former gilding are still visible’ on the ce- fers. In the 19th and perhaps also in the iling in this room.42 The surface of the ce- 20th century, some of the furnishing that iling was probably painted over at an ear- were of lesser artistic and historical value were sold.44 All this makes it very difficult to ceiling designed by H.V. de Vries from the Red Hall would distinguish precisely and identify individu- therefore have needed to be remodelled. According to the fragmentary descriptions that are available, this ceiling al pieces of furniture and to determine how was divided geometrically with a large painting in the cen- tre (Domagała 1978, p. 38). Reducing the size of such a cei- many of them there were, their provenance ling would have meant that the whole composition chan- and their ownership. It is also possible that ged, or it would have become distorted. In addition the cei- ling of the Kamlaria was made in 1600, and the new ceiling they are now in other institutions or collec- for the Council Hall was only made in 1608 and it is highly unlikely that the Red Hall would have been without a cei- ling for eight years. 43 Cf. note VI.15 on the list. 40 T. Domagała (1978, p. 38), and after him, E. Klamann 44 This may relate to the suite of furniture (6 chairs, 2 arm- (1980, p. 38) write that the ceiling in the Kamlaria was chairs and sofa) purchased in 1927 by the Wawel Royal changed in the mid 19th century, although they do not pro- Castle (Inv. nos. 560–567; the sofa was lost during the vide the source of their information. war). According to information given by the donor, Zofia 41 Cf. The ceiling shown in J.C. Schultz’s print of 1854 and Łabędzka of Warsaw, they came from the collection of the the one in the hallway of the townhouse at ul. Długa 35 father of her brother-in-law, Aleksander Makowski, a mer- (collections of the MG) and the painted ceilings on the chant from Gdańsk who collected Polish artefacts bought paintings of H.V. de Vries: Salome mit Haupt Johannes ‘from the Town Hall in Gdańsk’ at a time when ‘they were des Jufers beim Gastmahl des Herodes, early 17th century removing all Polish souvenirs’ (Archives of the Wawel Ro- (Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Inv. yal Castle, call no. AZK PZS- I- 111 ‘Meble’ (furniture), no. AKG163604) and Justice, 1595, Great Council Hall, pp. 77, 81). We would like to thank Aneta Giebuta from the Main Town Hall of the City of Gdańsk. Department of Furniture and Clocks at the Wawel Royal 42 Hoburg 1857, p. 49. Castle for her detailed information on the objects.

» 16 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… tions in Gdańsk; they may have found the- It is worth pointing out here that not all ir way outside of Gdańsk. One such exam- the historical objects found after 1945 re- ple of this is a Baroque table from the turn turned to the Town Hall. The paintings by of the 16th/17th century, now in the collec- A. Möller: Rebuilding of the Temple made for tions of the NMG.45 This characteristic pie- the Mooring Fee Chamber (Komora Palo- ce of furniture, with carved legs in the form wa), and also Secret Chancellery, which once of putti, stone top and (lost) engraved plaqu- hung in the Kamlaria, are now in the col- ettes, is also known from photographs taken lections of the NMG46 and are on display in the 1920s showing the furnishings of the in the permanent exhibition. The oil lamp Kamlaria, as well as from pre-war images which hung at the corner of the Town Hall, of the exhibition rooms of the former Muni- and which was largely preserved, is likewise cipal Museum. now the property of the NMG,47 but is on As mentioned earlier, the identification loan to the Museum of Gdańsk and is on of recovered historical objects was difficult display in the courtyard of the Town Hall.48 from the moment they were brought back The same applies to a decorative ironwork to Gdańsk. To this very day, details which lock dating from the end of the 16th cen- originate from the Town Hall are still being tury, which is installed on the door leading found in the Conservator’s repository. One from the Red Hall to the Winter Hall.49 example is the polychrome panels (2nd half The collections of the NMG also include of the 18th century) painted with illusioni- the only preserved piece of fabric – a floral stic architectural motifs, which at one time patterned cut velvet – which decorated the used to be the side panels lining the passage- walls of the Red Hall from the second half way from the Red Hall to the Winter Hall. of the 18th century until 1945.50 They were only identified in 2008 in the A different fate befell the fireplace in the Conservator’s repository. Unfortunately, the Kamlaria dating from 1594 which was made passageway was remodelled during the re- by Willem Barth. By and large it survived construction of the Town Hall and therefo- the Second World War. In 1964, 80% of the re they cannot be returned to their original pieces were still extant. An inventory was location. They are now housed in the collec- drawn up, measurements and drawings were tions of the Museum of Gdańsk. made, but then all traces of them disappe- In 2018 the NMG determined that the ared.51 On the other hand, pieces of the fi- blacksmithing details in the form of a flat- replace from the Small Council Hall were tened sphere intertwined with acanthus le- badly damaged due to having been moved aves, which was in the warehouse, was part of an oil lamp dating from the second half 46 Inv. no. MNG/SD/454/M, MNG/SD/494/M. 47 Inv. no. MNG/SD/416/Mt. of the 18th century which until 1944 hung 48 The item was loaned in 2018. 49 The door-leaf decorated with marquetry is the property on the south-east corner of the Town Hall. of MG, and the lock – of NMG (Inv. no. MNG/SD/519/ MT), on loan to MG from 1970. 50 Inv. no. MNG/SD/455/TH. 45 Inv. no. MNG/SD/301/Mb. 51 Strumiłło-Wójcik 1964.

» 17 « Katarzyna Darecka, Anna Frąckowska Wartime losses of the main Town Hall in Gdańsk… several times in the 1950s and early 1960s, the present-day appearance of the most be- however these defects were supplemented autiful and best-preserved room, the Great during conservation work. Council Hall, as well as other interiors, for The postwar fate of historic artefacts ori- example the Hallway, is perceived as being ginating from the Main Town Hall, the complete, without any obvious sign of mis- continual search for them up to the present sing furnishings. Traces of the turbulent day – which has been successful on more fate of almost every detail are only apparent than one occasion – show that there is still to specialists. hope of finding more details, and perhaps In 1970 the Museum of the History of the even some of the more important historical City of Gdańsk was opened in the Town objects. They would supplement the severely Hall’s interiors. It was later renamed the depleted interior furnishings. Historical Museum of the City of Gdańsk Despite the numerous losses and trans- (from 2000), before finally being named the formations of the interiors of the Town Hall, Museum of Gdańsk in 2018.

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I. THE GREAT HALLWAY

I.1 I.4 Painted decoration Two windows on the north wall on the ceiling Concordia 2nd half of the 18th century, 1685, Jakob Liscornet the Younger workshop in Gdańsk (c 1650‒1696), Gdańsk wood, woodworking oil on panels 1) H 391 cm, W 116 cm; H approx. 1000 cm, W approx. 400 cm 2) 391 cm, W 168 cm

I.2 I.5 Spiral staircase and gallery Doors leading to the Great Weta Hall 18th century, workshop in Gdańsk 2nd half of the 19th century, oak, woodworking, woodcarving unknown workshop stairs: H 825 cm, Dia. 265 cm oak, woodworking, bent steel sheeting, cut gallery: south side – L 1100 cm, H 270 cm, W 150 cm west side – L 200 m I.6 I.3 Set of Dutch tiles lining the walls Auricular ornaments on the doorway 1st half of the 18th century, leading to the Great Council Hall Holland, Amsterdam or Utrecht 1685, workshop in Gdańsk earthenware, tin-glazing, hand-painted oak, woodcarving with cobalt chloride and manganese H 237 cm, W 38 cm tile: approx. 13 cm x 13 cm

I.7 Pair of wall sconces 1920s, workshop in Gdańsk brass, glass approx. 50 cm x 50 cm

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II. THE GREAT COUNCIL HALL

II.1 II.6 Painting Fortitvdo Painting Vigilantia 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 70 cm H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 70 cm

II.2 II.7 Painting Tacitvrnitas Painting Aequalitas 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747 – after 1776), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 70 cm H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 70 cm

II.3 II.8 Painting Ingenvitas Painting Benedicti 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 70 cm H approx. 170 cm, W approx. 50 cm

II.4 II.9 Painting Dilectio Painting Levitas 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 170 cm, W approx. 45 cm H approx. 180 cm, W approx. 45 cm

II.5 II.10 Painting Devotio Painting Conivnctio 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 180 cm, W approx. 45 cm H approx. 180 cm, W approx. 45 cm

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II.11 II.15 Allegorical painting Man Moulding with painted inscription at an Open Window for the painting Piety 1764, Beniamin Schmidt 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk (1527–1604), Gdańsk oil on canvas renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt H approx. 190 cm, W approx. 120 cm (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on panel II.12 H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm Allegorical painting Portrait of a Man 1764, Beniamin Schmidt II.16 (before 1747 – after 1776), Gdańsk Moulding with painted inscription oil on canvas for the painting Concord H approx. 180 cm, W approx. 80 cm 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604), Gdańsk II.13 renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt Moulding with painted inscription (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk for the painting Justice oil on panel 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm (1527–1604), Gdańsk renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt II.17 (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk Moulding with painted inscription oil on panel for the painting Freedom H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604), Gdańsk II.14 renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt Moulding with painted inscription (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk for the painting Wisdom oil on panel 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm (1527–1604), Gdańsk renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt II.18 (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk Moulding with painted inscription oil on panel for the painting Constancy H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1604), Gdańsk renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk oil on panel H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 218 cm

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II.19 II.23 Moulding with painted inscription Door leading from the Great for the painting The Last Judgement Council Hall to the Winter Hall 1594–1595, Hans Vredeman de Vries A. Door leaf (1527–1604), Gdańsk 1597, Hans Vredeman de Vries renovation: 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (1527–1604), Gdańsk (before 1747– after 1776), Gdańsk wood, woodworking, painting oil on panel on canvas glued onto the door H approx. 17 cm, W approx. 256 cm H approx. 220 cm, W approx. 120 cm

II.20 B. Door handle Painted decorations on edge 17th/18th century, workshop in Gdańsk of window recesses metal, blacksmithing, repoussé 1764 (?), workshop in Gdańsk and embossed, gilding (?) oil on canvas C. Frame vertical elements (sides): L approx. 1764, Beniamin Schmidt (before 195 cm and approx 380 cm, 1747– after 1776) (?), Gdańsk W approx. 10 cm – (x 8) pine, woodworking, painting on panel on the arches (top): L approx. 190 cm, vertical elements: H approx. W approx. 10 cm – (x 4) 230 cm, W approx. 20 cm horizontal elements: H approx. 30 cm, II.21 W approx. 200 cm Three windows in the south wall 2nd half of the 19th century, D. Baluster rail workshop in Gdańsk 1764 (?), workshop in Gdańsk oak and other types of wood, steel rod, turned brass ring, woodworking, woodcarving, metalworking and blacksmithing marquetry, gilding H 382 cm, W 154 cm II.24 Elements of the wainscoting, II.22 mouldings and benches Window in the north wall Mouldings on pilasters between 2nd half of the 19th century, the panels on south wall workshop in Gdańsk 1595, Simon Hörl (d. 1617), Gdańsk oak (?) and other types of wood, wood: oak, black oak, lime, pear; woodworking, woodcarving, veneers: birch, burled wood, mahogany, marquetry, gilding palisander, woodworking, woodcarving, H 255 cm, W 168 cm marquetry, staining, gilding H 44 cm, W 90 cm (x 2)

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Elements on wainscoting wall – L 240 and 276 cm, west wall on window glyphs – L approx. 50, approx. 95, approx. 1595 or 2nd half of the 19th 90 and approx. 25 cm, H 160 cm century (?), Simon Hörl (d. 1617), tassels: total length approx. 55 cm or unknown workshop, Gdańsk braid: total length approx. 43 m, oak, burled wood and other, W 1.5 cm cushions: on north bench woodworking, woodcarving, – L 560 cm – x 4, on east bench marquetry, stained veneers, gilding – L 700 cm – x 4, on west bench – approx. H approx. 140 cm, W approx. 80 cm (x 6) 570 cm – approx. x 3, on south bench – approx. 600 cm – approx x 3, W 75 cm C. Elements of the benches: single cushion: L 140–200 cm, small doors and pilasters W 75 cm (approx. x 14) 1595, Simon Hörl (d. 1617), Gdańsk construction made from oak; veneers: II.26 birch, burled wood, black oak, Fleurons on ceiling mahogany, walnut, palisander; metal, 1608, Simon Hörl (d. 1617), Gdańsk woodworking, marquetry, staining, lime, woodcarving, polychromy, blacksmithing, engraving, tinning gilding, silvering, glazing small doors: H 54 cm, W 72.5 cm (x 1) small: H 35.5 cm, W 28.5 cm (x 8 or x 9) pilasters: H 54 cm, W 14.5 cm (x 3) smallest: H 16.5 cm, W 15.5 cm (x 22)

D. Bench (north wall) and wainscoting II.27 (north part of east and west walls) Grate screening the hearth 2nd half of the 19th century (?), 19th century (?), workshop in Gdańsk unknown workshop wrought iron oak, woodworking, approx. 150 cm x 150 cm woodcarving, marquetry bench: north wall – L 565 II.28 cm, H approx. 69 cm Sets of furniture: 2 tables, wainscoting: west wall – L 234 cm, east approx. 22 chairs, armchairs wall – L 240 cm, H approx. 69 cm 1887‒1888, unknown workshop wood, rattan, woodworking, turning, II.25 veneering, rattan weaving Wall hangings, cushions, accessories table Dia. 450 cm × 660 cm, 1764 and 1892, workshop in Gdańsk W of tabletop approx. 100 cm fabric and haberdashery trimmings, small table: Dia. approx 85 cut silk velvet, braiding – linen, tassels cm × approx. 150 cm – silk fabric: north wall – L 560 cm, east wall – L 240 and 700 cm, west

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II.29 Pendule en cartel (Cartel Clock) 1st quarter of the 18th century, unknown author, France (?) wood, brass, bronze, casting, gilding, enamelling H approx. 70 cm

III. THE GREAT WETA HALL

III.1 III.5 Painting Battle of Oliwa Painting Grand Master Ludolf 1650, Bartholomäus Milwitz König 26 March 1343 laying the (c 1590–1656), Gdańsk cornerstone for the city walls of oil on canvas the Main Town in Gdańsk H 110 cm, W 330 cm c 1890, Ernst Röber (1849–1915), Düsseldorf III.2 tempera on canvas Painting of a whale H approx. 300 cm, W approx. 400 cm 19th century, unknown author, Gdańsk (?) oil on canvas III.6 Painting Coronation of Mayor Eberhard unknown dimensions Ferber during a Chivalric Tournament c 1890, Ernst Röber (1849–1915), III.3 Düsseldorf Painting Withdrawal of the French tempera on canvas Army from Gdańsk on 2 January 1814 H approx. 300 cm, W approx. 400 cm c 1890, Carl Röchling (1855–1920), Berlin (?) III.7 tempera on canvas Painting Deputation from H approx. 340 cm, W approx. 640 cm Gdańsk in Venice in 1601 c 1890, Herman Prell (1854–1922), III.4 Dresden Painting Emperor Wilhelm I tempera on canvas and Mayor Leopold von Winter H approx. 300 cm, W approx. 400 cm Admire a View of Gdańsk c 1890, Carl Röchling (1855–1920), Berlin tempera on canvas H approx. 340 cm, W approx. 640 cm

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III.11 III.8 Painted decoration on vaults Painting Repelling King 1891–1893, after a design by Stefan Bathory’s attack on the Ernst Röber (1849–1915) of Wisłoujście Fortress in 1577 Düsseldorf, unknown workshop c 1890, Herman Prell (1854–1922), Dresden painting (most probably tempera) on plaster tempera on canvas rooms sizes: approx. 13.4 m x 11.5 m H approx. 340 cm, W approx. 400 cm III.12 III.9 Set of four ceiling lamps Wainscoting 1899, author unknown, Germany 1860s and 1890s, workshop in Gdańsk metal, glass wood, woodworking, H approx. 150 cm, W approx. 120 cm veneering, woodcarving west wall – L 240 and 6.4 m, north wall III.13 – L 12.9 m, south wall – L 13.3 m Bust of the Mayor of Gdańsk east wall – no data – Leopold von Winter 1897, Richard Siemering, Berlin III.10 white Carrara marble, sculpting Architectural details: columns, H approx. 70 cm brackets, keystones 1837 – building design F.W. Krüger, III.14 1840–1841 – reconstruction under the Bust of the Mayor of Gdańsk supervision of Heinrich W. Zernecki – Heinrich Ehlers of Gdańsk, the masonry work was 1910–1913, Adolf Kürle, Wunsch performed by the firm of Daniel plaster, sculpting Emanuel König of Gdańsk, stonework by craftsman Cantian of Berlin, the gilded H approx. 70 cm metalwork by Devarannes of Berlin column: polished light and dark III.15 granite, metal capital with tin Bust of the Chairman of the casting, gilded, H approx. 360 cm City Council – Otto Steffens brackets: materials and 1913, unknown author, Munich dimensions unknown – x 8 bronze, casting keystones: materials and dimensions unknown dimensions unknown, larger – x 4; smaller – x 70

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III.16 Set of furniture from the City Council’s meeting room c 19th century, workshop in Gdańsk wood, woodworking, upholstery seat with writing table: H approx. 120 cm, W approx. 80 cm, D approx. 100 cm

IV. THE SMALL COUNCIL HALL

IV.1 IV.5 Painting King Scylurus Portrait of the Mayor of Gdańsk on His Death Bed – Carl Adolf Baumbach 1611, Isaac van den Blocke 1922, Fritz Pfuhle (1878–1969) (?), Gdańsk (1572–1626), Gdańsk oil on canvas oil on canvas H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 80 cm H approx. 160 cm, W approx. 440 cm IV.6 Portrait of the Mayor of Gdańsk – IV.2 Clemens Gottlieb Ernst Delbrück Painting Honesty 1922, Fritz Pfuhle (1878–1969) (?), Gdańsk 1611, Isaac van den Blocke oil on canvas (1572–1626), Gdańsk H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 80 cm oil on canvas H approx. 159 cm, W approx. 247 cm IV.7 Portrait of the Mayor of Gdańsk IV.3 – Henrich Otto Ehlers Painting Amnesty (Julius 1922, Fritz Pfuhle (1878–1969) (?), Gdańsk Caesar Ordering the Burning of Pompey’s Letters) oil on canvas 1611, Isaac van den Blocke H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 80 cm (1572–1626), Gdańsk oil on canvas IV.8 H approx. 159 cm, W approx. 247 cm Portrait of the Mayor of Gdańsk – Heinrich Scholtz IV.4 1922, Fritz Pfuhle (1878–1969) (?), Gdańsk Painting Justice oil on canvas 1611, Isaac van den Blocke H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 80 cm (1572–1626), Gdańsk oil on canvas H approx. 159 cm, W approx. 247 cm

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IV.9 IV.14 Portrait of the Mayor of Gdańsk – Fireplace back plate Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Sahm 19th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) 1922, Fritz Pfuhle (1878–1969) (?), Gdańsk iron, casting oil on canvas approx. 50 cm x 50 cm H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 80 cm IV.15 IV.10 Painted panel screening the Elements of the wooden mouldings hearth of the fireplace 1st half of the 17th century, 17th/18th century (?), workshop in Gdańsk workshop in Gdańsk (?) lime, woodcarving, polychromy, oil on panel gilding, silvering, glazing approx. 120 cm x 120 cm consoles: W 13 cm, H 18 cm (x 12) fragments of decoration on IV.16 mouldings: L 110 cm and 80 cm Wainscoting IV.11 1867‒1888, unknown workshop Decoration on keystones of vaults wood, woodworking, veneering, marquetry 1573–1575, workshop in Gdańsk (?) west wall – L 12 m, north wall – L 1.4 wood, woodcarving, polychromy, gilding and 1.3 m, west wall – L 1.9 m and 9.5 m, unknown dimensions – x 4 south wall ‒ no data (0.5 m and 3 m?)

IV.12 IV.17 Painted decoration on vaults Set of three ceiling lamps c mid 19th century, unknown workshop 1920s tempera on plasterwork brass sheeting (?), bent, openwork, glass room size: approx. 4.9 m x 12.3 m unknown dimensions

IV.13 IV.18 Set of Dutch tiles Set of furniture, table and chairs 1st half of the 18th century, 1920s, unknown workshop Holland, Amsterdam or Utrecht wood, veneer, leather or velvet, earthenware, tin-glazing, hand-painted woodworking, upholstery with cobalt chloride and manganese chair – at least x 25; table – 1. approx. 13 cm x 13 cm hearth: H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 120 cm, D approx. 50 cm

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IV.19 IV.20 Elements on the benches Heating stove late 16th century, workshop c 1910–1920, unknown factory of Simon Hörl, Gdańsk iron, casting oak, veneers of various woods (including H approx. 250 cm, burled wood), woodworking, marquetry W Dia. approx. 40–60 cm H approx. 520 cm, W approx. 120 cm

V. THE SMALL WETA HALL

V.1 V.5 Painting The Miraculous Catch Print with a motif of Gdańsk (?) of Fish (Tax for the Temple) 19th–20th century, artist from Gdańsk (?) 1601–1602, Anton Möller (c 1563–1611), paper, graphic technique Gdańsk approx. 80 cm x 50 cm oil on canvas H approx. 130 cm, W approx. 330 cm V.6 Print with a motif of Gdańsk (?) V.2 19th–20th century, artist from Gdańsk (?) Painted decoration on fireplace paper, graphic technique 19th century, painter from Gdańsk approx. 60 cm x 50 cm iron, casting approx. 50 cm x 50 cm V.7 Set of furniture for everyday use V.3 19th–20th century, manufacturer Lavabo from Gdańsk (?) 19th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) wood, woodworking, upholstery carved wood, tin, casting chair: H approx. 90 cm, H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 50 cm W approx. 40 cm x 40 cm – x 50 table: H approx. 80 cm, L approx. V.4 400 cm, W approx. 120 cm Set of ceiling lamps 1st quarter of the 20th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) metal, glass H approx. 150 cm, Dia. approx. 80 cm (x 3)

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VI. THE KAMLARIA

VI.1 VI.6 Painting with swordfish Central frieze (Xiphias gladius) 1607, workshop of Simon Hörl, Gdańsk 17th century, unknown author, Gdańsk (?) oak, woodworking, woodcarving oil on canvas H approx. 60 cm, L – north wall 803 unknown dimensions cm, east wall, approx. 940 cm, west wall approx. 940 cm, south wall – no data VI.2 Painting Napoleon at Biskupia VI.7 Górka in Gdańsk Wainscoting, portals, doors, pilasters 1807‒1812, unknown workshop 1960s, workshop in Gdańsk oil on canvas wood, woodworking H approx. 100 cm, W approx. 70 cm wainscoting: L – north wall 803 cm, east wall, approx. 940 cm, west wall VI.3 approx. 940 cm, south wall – no data Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm III 19th century, unknown author, Gdańsk (?) VI.8 oil on canvas Ceiling with frieze dimensions unknown early 17th or 1st half of the 19th century, workshop in Gdańsk VI.4 oak, woodworking, woodcarving. Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm IV gilded elements 19th century, unknown author, Gdańsk (?) approx. 940 cm x 803 cm oil on canvas unknown dimensions VI.9 Brass hanging chandelier VI.5 (so-called Polenluster) Portal 18th century remodelled in the 19th 1607, Simon Hörl (d. 1617), Gdańsk century, workshop in Gdańsk oak and walnut, woodworking, cast brass, chased, glass woodcarving H approx 150 cm, Dia. Approx 100 cm H approx. 295 cm, W approx. 186 cm VI.10 Door with allegorical representations c 1680, workshop in Gdańsk oak, woodworking, woodcarving H approx. 215 cm, W approx. 94 cm

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VI.11 VI.16 Perpetual calendar Table cover with figure 1608, Anton Schrotburg, Gdańsk from ancient history marble, ebony, gilding c 16th century or early 17th unknown dimensions century, workshop in Gdańsk mother-of-pearl, engraved VI.12 corner plaques L approx. 12 x 12 cm Bust of Jacob Theodor Klein oval plaques L approx. 12 cm circular plaques Dia. approx. 6 cm 19th century, unknown author, Gdańsk (?) bronze (?) VI.17 bust: approx. 70 cm Table H with base c 160 cm 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving VI.13 H approx. 80 cm, L approx. 140 cm, Bust of Field Marshal W approx. 70 cm Paul von Hindenburg 1915–1917, Hugo Lederer VI.18 (1871–1940), Berlin Small table bronze, casting 2nd half of the 19th century (?), H approx. 60 cm workshop in Gdańsk (?) wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving VI.14 H approx. 70 cm, L approx. 100 cm, Bust of Field Marshal W approx. 60 cm August von Mackensen 1915–1917, Hugo Lederer VI.19 (1871–1940), Berlin Set of upholstered furniture: sofa, bronze, casting pair of armchairs, tabouret H approx. 60 cm c 19th century, workshop in Gdańsk wood, fabric, woodworking, turning, VI.15 woodcarving, upholstery Table H approx. 100 cm 17th/18th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) sofa: W approx. 200 cm wood, porphyry, mother-of-pearl, woodworking, woodcarving VI.20 H approx. 80 cm, L approx. 120 cm, Set of upholstered chairs W approx. 100 cm c 1700, workshop in Gdańsk (?) wood, fabric, woodworking, turning, woodcarving H approx. 100 cm

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VI.21 VI.24 Set of upholstered chairs Set of upholstered chairs c 1700, workshop in Gdańsk (?) 1st quarter of the 18th century, wood, leather (?), woodworking, workshop in Gdańsk turning, woodcarving, upholstery wood, fabric, woodworking, turning, H approx. 100 cm woodcarving, upholstery H approx. 100 cm VI.22 Set of upholstered chairs VI.25 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) Set of upholstered chairs wood, fabric, woodworking, turning, c 18th century, workshop in Gdańsk woodcarving, upholstery wood, fabric or leather (?), woodworking, H approx. 100 cm turning, woodcarving, upholstery H approx. 100 cm VI.23 Pair of upholstered armchairs 1st quarter of the 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) wood, fabric, woodworking, turning, woodcarving, upholstery H approx. 100 cm

VII. THE CASH DEPOSITORY

VII.1 VII.3 Copy of the painting A walk Painting with Prussian soldiers Outside the Walls of Gdańsk 2nd half of the 19th century, Karl von c 1905, Hans Pahlmann Höwel (1800–1862), Gdańsk (1863–1907), Gdańsk oil on canvas, carved frame, gilded oil on canvas approx. 50 cm x 50 cm H approx. 86 cm, W approx. 113 cm VII.4 VII.2 Central frieze and wall cupboard Painting with Prussian soldiers early 17th century 1607, workshop 2nd half of the 19th century, Karl of Simon Hörl, Gdańsk von Höwel (1800–1862), Gdańsk wood, woodworking, woodcarving oil on canvas, carved frame, gilded Length of frieze approx. 400 cm approx. 40 cm x 60 cm

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VII.5 VII.10 Wainscoting and doors Table mirror with scene of Pentecost 1960s, workshop in Gdańsk 2nd half of the 16th century (?), wood, woodworking, woodcarving unknown author, mistakenly attributed wainscoting: L – west wall approx. 400 cm, to Jacopo Caragli (c 1500 –1565) (?) north wall approx. 30 cm and approx. 220 silver, goldsmithing cm, south wall 160 cm, east wall 545 cm unknown dimensions doors: W approx. 110 cm, H approx. 210 cm VII.11 Table VII.6 2nd half of the 19th century (?), some part Vault brackets may be from c 1700, workshop in Gdańsk 1960s (?), workshop in Gdańsk wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving stone, artificial stone (?), sculpting, H approx. 80 cm, L approx. 120 cm, cast or moulded (?) W approx. 70 cm (x 6) VII.12 VII.7 Hanging brass chandelier of the Pedestal table so-called Polenluster type 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk 18th century, workshop in Gdańsk wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving brass, cast, chased H approx. 80 cm, W approx. 40 cm H approx. 150 cm, W approx. 100 cm VII.13 VII.8 Desk Clock (larger) found in 1845 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk (?) 2nd half of the 18th century (?), wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving unknown author, France (?) L approx. 140 cm, W approx. 70 cm brass, cast, chased, wood, woodcarving H approx. 60 cm VII.14 Chair VII.9 19th/20th century, workshop in Gdańsk Clock (smaller) found in 1845 wood, woodworking, turning, woodcarving 2nd half of the 18th century (?), H approx. 80 cm unknown author, France (?) brass, silver (?) unknown dimensions

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VIII. THE UPPER HALLWAY

VIII.1 Painting Men in Conversation c 1680, unknown author, Gdańsk oil on canvas (?) dimensions unknown

IX. THE EXTERIOR DETAILS

IX.1 IX.4 Carillon in the Main Town Hall Bowl of tar lamp 1560, Johannes Moor (Moer, before 2nd half of the 18th century, 1530– after 1561), ‘s-Hertogenbosch unknown workshop, Gdańsk (?) conservation and repair 19th century iron, blacksmithing bronze, cast, bellfounding Dia. approx. 66 cm, H approx. 13 cm

IX.2 IX.5 Figure of king at the top of tower Decorations on the domes 1561, armourer Agacjusz Grabaw, on the Town Hall Hans Glus, gilder Arndt, Gdańsk 16th–19th century, workshop in Gdańsk Copper sheeting, gilded, blacksmithing, copper sheeting, gilded hammering, engraving figure: H 143 cm, W under shoulders IX.6 approx. 30 cm, total W approx. 110 cm Lantern alongside the steps sphere with figure of king to the leading to the Town Hall top of the flagstaff, H 344 cm 1768 – decoration on base of lantern 1899 – installation of electricity, IX.3 unknown workshop Measuring rods in Gdańsk steel, glass, blacksmithing c mid 17th century, unknown workshop metal and steel rod, blacksmithing, probably gilded Translation H 284 cm, W 42 cm, D 40 cm Anne-Marie Fabianowska

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