Raastupa

Fire insurance

The City of Rauma took out fire insurance for the Town Hall building in 1855. The fire insurance policy mentioned that the building dated from 1776, was made of stone, covered with German roof tiles and had a tower with a chiming bell. The tower was covered with iron cladding and painted with oil paint. On the ground floor there was an entrance hall, a shop with a pantry and a chamber, a guard’s room and two pipes. There were three tiled stoves as fireplaces. Upstairs there was a lobby, two halls with a chamber with tiled stoves and two unstoved chambers. Two of the ovens were brown-glazed and four were brick. The doors were semi-transomed, and there were six of them. There were also two full French doors, one of which had a glass top and a window above it. The outer door of the shop was a double door of double board. There were also four single board doors.

On the southern boundary of the property, the end facing Isoraastuvankatu, was an outbuilding, which was a boarded wooden shed built in 1852. The driveway gates, which were double board, were insured.

Modification drafts

There are not very many change drawings. In 1890, a small wooden weigh house was to be built in the courtyard of the old town hall by John Fredr. Lindegren’s plans. In 1895, the premises of the police chamber downstairs were altered to create four tubes in the western part of the ground floor. A corridor was added in the centre, giving access to each tube. The rooms are also heated from the central corridor. The rooms to the east of the entrance hall will house the Monetary Office and the Police Office. In 1932, a boiler room was built in the basement of the building and all the tiled ovens were demolished. On the ground floor, the pipes facing the square were demolished, as the whole building was used by the museum. In 1976, restoration work was carried out on the building according to the plans of the Laiho-Pulkkinen-Raunio architectural firm.

Current situation

Town Hall building
Two-storey plastered, baroque brick building, built between 1775 and 1776, designed by architect Chr. Fr. Schröder, built by master mason Johan Schytt. Renaissance-style bell tower of wood, hipped roof, hipped roof. One of the most remarkable surviving creations of our urban architecture of the 17th century. Restored in 1976

Exterior
Concrete transformer building from the 1930s

Wall and gates
Grey stone wall on the roof side of the property, brick gate frames, plastered, potted roof.