当新兴的市民阶级在他们的城市里兴造表示他们地位的办公管理建筑——市政厅的时候,他们面对的是强大的教会势力。他们的市政厅必须兴造得足够伟大,以与中世纪时代已建成的主宰着城市的巍峨教堂相抗衡。无论是汉堡的还是慕尼黑的市政厅,都可以看到这种趋向。建筑中常有高耸入云,但与办公管理功能毫无关系的钟塔。精致的繁雕细缕炫耀的是新兴阶级的豪富,用以肯定业主的权力统治的建筑 When the emerging communal class created in their city an office management building that represented their status - the City Hall, they faced a powerful church power. Their city hall must be made great enough to counter the built-in churches of the Middle Ages that dominate the city. Whether it is Hamburg or Munich’s City Hall, you can see this trend. There are often towering towers in the building, but they have nothing to do with office management functions. Exquisite craftsmanship is showing off the wealth of the emerging class, used to affirm the power of the owners ruled the building