 The town hall was built in about 1552 when the citizens of Køge were granted permission from Christian III to use building materials from the abandoned Greyfriers monastery in Vestergade for the construction of a town hall on condition that it contained grainery and custom office.It was built in the Renaissance style and had a frieze with reliefs from Statius von Düren's workshop in Lübeck under the windows on the first floor.The town hall was extended northwards in 1570.