Prague City Hall
Prague City Hall (Magistrát hlavního města Prahy) is one of the bodies of the City of Prague. It consists of the Director of City Hall and other city employees assigned to it.[1] Its official address is Mariánské náměstí 2/2, Prague 1.[2]*
Status and duties
Its status is set out in Act No. 131/2000 Coll., on the City of Prague. In the city's own competence, it carries out tasks assigned by the city assembly or the city council. It also exercises delegated competence, meaning state administration entrusted to the city, unless the law assigns it to another body. Among other things, it reviews administrative decisions issued by the bodies of city districts and directs how the districts exercise delegated competence.[1]
The office is headed by a director who is the superior of all its employees and answers to the Mayor for its work. The director attends meetings of the assembly and the council in an advisory capacity and may not hold office in political parties or movements. The basic organisational units are departments, which are further divided into sections.[1]
Buildings
The main building is the New City Hall on the east side of Mariánské Square in the Old Town. It was built between 1908 and 1911 to a design by Osvald Polívka, with sculptural decoration by Stanislav Sucharda, Josef Mařatka and Ladislav Šaloun. Šaloun's statues of Rabbi Loew and the Iron Knight stand at the corners. Since 1945 the building has served as the seat of the city administration and the Mayor, and its central hall is used as the assembly chamber.[3]
Since 2006 part of the office has been based in the Škoda Palace on Jungmannova Street in the New Town. The late Cubist building was designed by Pavel Janák and completed in 1929 for the Škoda Works.[4]
September 2026
At the end of September 2026 City Hall launched a tender worth 64.2 million crowns excluding VAT to redevelop the Vltava embankment by the former ice houses in Braník. A footpath and cycle path with a footbridge across the bay will be built there, linking to the main cycle route A2.[5]
Sources
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