Sights: The Council House Hajduszoboszlo

Hajduszoboszlo is an old town, it has had its Council House for centuries. The history of even the present building goes back to the beginning of the 1800s when the the leaders of the town decided that the old building was no longer suitable for giving home to the Council. So they asked Cornelius Rabl an architect from Debrecen, the builder of the Reformed Church to make a plan for a new, bigger and more beautiful building. The foundation stone was laid in 1818. It took 3 years to build it with the last step of constructing the furnaces made of mud as that time the rooms were heated using straw and dry cobs. The new building housed not only the officies and the huge Council Room but the lockup as well.

The Councy House got its present form in 1896, in the year of the millenium of the arrival of Magyar and Hun tribes to the present territory of Hungary. It was the time when the fourth section of the building facing the Rákóczi street was added, forming the facade that can be seen even today.