The principal secular building is the city hall, completed in the 15th century. It is flanked on one side by a gothic chapel, now adapted and operated as the Olomouc Museum of Art. It has a tower high, adorned with an astronomical clock in an uncommon Socialist Realist style. The original 15th-century clock was destroyed at the end of World War II. It was reconstructed in 1947–1955 by Karel Svolinský, who used the government-approved style of the time, featuring proletarians rather than saints. This is also the reason why the clock's calendar represents some of the most important days of the Communist regime.
The principal secular building is the city hall completed in the 15th century. It is flanked on one side by a gothic chapel, now adapted and operated as the Olom.ouc Museum of Art. It has a tower high, adorned with an astronomical clock in an uncommon Socialist Realist style. The origina,l 15th-century clock was destroyed at the end of World War II It was reconstructed in 1947–1955 by Karel Svolinský, who used the government-approved style of the time, featuring proletarians rather than saints This is also the reason why the clock's calendar represents s.ome of the most important days of the Communist regime.