Today’s square was created on the site of a small pond that remained in the deeper part of the water ditch that once protected the ramparts of the medieval town. On the site of the dried-up pond, a marketplace was established.
On its northern side, as early as the end of the 17th century, stood a house used for meetings of the town council. In 1725 it was rebuilt and roofed with tiles. After the great damage caused by the earthquake of 1763, it was restored in 1766 and in the following year supplemented with a fire watchtower with a copper roof, on top of which was placed the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy, a double-headed eagle made of sheet metal. After the fire of 1848, the building was renovated again, but it was already necessary to enlarge it, so in 1875 another storey was added and it received a new watchtower, thus creating the town hall in the form in which we know it today.
The building still serves as the seat of the town hall today. In the window of its tower, since New Year’s Eve 1999, between 10 AM and 4 PM at two-hour intervals, a figure of a hussar from 1848/49 appears, and Klapka’s March is heard.
The statue of General Klapka adorned the space in front of the town hall until the end of World War II. In October 1945, soldiers of the Czechoslovak army removed the statue from the main square, and for twenty years it lay in the Komárno Fortress. Finally, in 1965 it was restored, but not in its original location. It returned to its original place, the main square of the town, in 1991 after the change of regime.