Sulmierzyce is a town located in County of Krotoszyn, ca. 12 south-east of the town of Krotoszyn, by the road to Ostrzeszów.
As a settlement, the locality first appears in historic accounts in 1420. It gained its municipal rights (urban charter) in 1457, and was reincorporated as an urban area in 1604; so-called new municipalities were established next to it in 1654. Sulmierzyce was to lose its municipal rights in 1972 but had them reinstated in the following year resulting from a protest of its dwellers.
The building placed centrally in the market is Poland’s only wooden town-hall structure. A building in that location, probably wooden as well, was first mentioned in 1647; it fell victim to several fires. The building as it stands today was erected in 1743 and redeveloped in 1879, having been through a series of restoration projects.
The town-hall is a two-storey log construction founded on a rectangle plan, covered with a shingle roof, with arcades supported on timber poles set along its three sides. A shingles-covered turret appears in the centre of the ridge, crowned with a tin cupola with a vane featuring the construction date: ‘1743’. The walls are plastered. A mirror staircase will lead you to the entrance on the upper floor. The beam above the door bears an inscription reading ‘ANNO DOM.[INI] 1743 ...’.
The original interior layout has been preserved, with the lord mayor’s room and town council meeting room set on the upper storey. As part of the recent renovation, the walls’ foundation got exposed, along with carpentry opening frames and profiled beam ceilings.
Today, the former town-hall building houses a Regional Museum of the Sulmierzyce Land.