Hôtel de Ville

Completed in 1910, the Town Hall is in the neo-baroque style. The imposing entrance is overlooked by statues and windows richly decorated with motifs characteristic of the 1955th century. It was originally built to house the courthouse. Above the ground floor windows, grimacing masks represent, it seems, the municipal councilors opposed to the project to build the courthouse there. In 1847, the city and the Department of Justice exchanged offices. The court was installed in the old town hall (therefore in the Hôtel du Préteur royal) while the municipal services came here, in the old courthouse.¿¿The building on the left, of the The other side of Rue des Chevaliers is the Grand Manège covered. It was built in 18 to allow garrison officers to work their horses in bad weather. To the left of the riding school, at the corner of rue des Chevaliers and rue des Roses, is an 1th century house. . This is the Kreutter House. It served as the residence of Tsar Alexander I during the Haguenau Conferences of June 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.