The civic chamber brings together an attractive ensemble of furniture from the late Baroque and Biedermeier periods. 

The painting The First Christmas Tree in Ried was created by Munich painter Ignaz Pollinger. It depicts contented family life in the late Biedermeier period, and shows the Christmas celebrations of the middle-class Rapolter family in Ried. The banners on the tree reveal that it was also the birthday party for merchant Josef Anton Rapolter, who was born on 24 December 1800. The family group includes his wife, the grandmother in the armchair and eleven children playing with presents. Mrs. Rapolter is expecting her twelfth child. The as yet unborn child is depicted as the baby Jesus beneath the glass cloche on the table.

Tradition tells us about the first Christmas tree in Ried: 

In the days before Christmas, Father Rapolter said to his children one day, ‘This year, instead of the golden Heinßl (a horse who left fruits and sweetmeats in children’s shoes), the Christ Child himself is coming!’ The children awaited Christmas Eve with excitement. Everything was as it usually was, with the father saying three decades of the rosary and reading aloud the story of Christ’s birth. Then came the moment the children had been waiting for. A simple silver bell gave the signal and there it stood in front of them, the first Christmas tree in Ried! It was a small fir tree, with lots of small lights, red apples and golden nuts and gingerbread.