There has never been a town hall as a stately or even magnificent building in the center of Neuwied. The young town was too poor or perhaps too modest in the first difficult decades of its existence to afford something like that. Until the formation of the first magistrate in 1680/81, the count's government handled the town's affairs. Between 1699 and 1716, the first town hall was built on a "burned-out site" at the corner of Mittelstraße and Rheinstraße, which only differed from simple burgher houses by a particularly large wine cellar, a double flight of stairs, and double windows. This building came into private ownership around 1800. In 1811, the town acquired a larger corner house on Markt- and Engerser Straße directly across from the market church as a new "town, school, and watch house". In 1863, the house was replaced by a three-story new building.

A brother of the reigning Count Alexander zu Wied, the later "General Wied", had the largest building in the town constructed on Pfarrstraße after 1740 and donated it to the town in 1765 for the care of the poor and orphans. However, the "Gentry House" proved to be a financial failure as a social institution, and the town fathers leased it out in 1773 and sold it in 1784 to the company Remy & Barensfeld, which processed black metal waste from the Rasselstein factory into enamelware. In 1871, the town received the house along with the company’s land back as an inheritance from the last heir of the now-defunct company. In 1877, the city administration moved in here, sharing the building with the Higher Daughters' School until 1912. It has retained the appearance it had after the renovations and modernizations done in accordance with the tastes of the time.

Today, it still serves as an administrative building for the registry office, the city library, and the office for city marketing.