Düsseldorf Town Hall
Renaissance and postwar council complex on the old market square, fronted by a Baroque bronze rider.
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This guide to the Town Hall in Düsseldorf starts at the green bronze rider on the Marktplatz in front of it, and with a legend the town has never quite let go. It turns on Jan Wellem, the elector born in this city, and his court sculptor Gabriel de Grupello, whose own house is folded into the Town Hall's walls. Best heard standing close to the horse's flank, then turning to face the council's wing.
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