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The Great fire of Tartu took place on 6 July 1775 and destroyed most of the city of Tartu in what is now Estonia. The fire destroyed the centre of the city.

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The building is owned by Tartu University, and is on the same street as the university's main building. The building was commissioned following the Great Fire of Tartu. The builder's German born architect was Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walter who also worked on Tartu Town Hall which was nearby. The house was built for Christina Wilcke and was nominally complete by 1780. The building is named for Colonel Magnus Johann von Bock who owned the building. M.J. von Bock died in 1807 and the converted building was bought by the University of Tartu in 1839.

Seat of the city government of Tartu. The present building is the third consecutive town hall built on the same location. It was erected, following the Great fire of Tartu, between 1782 and 1789 to designs by the German architect Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walter. From the outset, the building was designed to house a number of tenants in addition to the city government; a prison and a storage for weighs and measures were included already in the original drawings. The town hall is built in an early Neoclassical style, with Rococo and Baroque details, such as the steeple containing the carillon (which is still played daily).

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