Today's town hall façade is a magnificent example of the German late Renaissance and was build by the Trier sculptor R.H. Hoffmann in 1608. The patron of Hoffmann was the then Archbishop Lothar von Metternich (1599 - 1623), whose coat of arms and the Electoral Cross next to the Bernkasteler coat of arms adorn the town hall bay. The oriel rests on a basalt column and carries a stone figure of the Salvator mundi, the Redeemer of the World with the globe, on the baroque curved roof. On the left cornerstone of the façade on the ground floor is still the pillory on which the perpetrators were bound to the public pillory with chains and handcuffs.
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