Three architecturally completely different buildings make up the town hall complex today. The southern building from 1905, the northern building with late Gothic elements and the central building - the "Steinerne Kemenate" - from 1419. Together with the Gothic town church of St. Georg, the Todenwarthsche Kemenate and half-timbered houses in Franconian frame construction, the town hall impressively surrounds Schmalkalder Altmarkt.

Among other things, you can see the town hall:

The entire coats of arms of the members of the Schmalkaldic League, the Renaissance sculpture of a lion from 1583 - as a sign of Hesse's sole rule over the town of Schmalkalden, the bust of Luther - created by the Berlin artist Wieland Förster (erected in 1996), an oversized town view "Schmalkalden around 1600" (1937/38), the town coat of arms above the town hall door - with lion and hen as a symbol of the dual rule (1360-1583) by the Henneberg counts and the Hessian landgraves.