The town hall has been rebuilt many times. In the Middle Ages it had a Gothic façade, and was adorned with pictures and sayings from the legend of its foundation.

Back then, it had a bread  vault on the ground floor and the bakers of Ried were permitted to take turns selling bread here.

The public scales stood in the weighing vault, which also opened onto Rathausgasse. The scales belonged to the parish church. One third of takings, known as Gefälle, or differential, went to the weight marshal and two thirds to the parish church.

1893 was the Historicist era. Architect Raimund Jeblinger gave the town hall a neo-Gothic façade. The Sparkasse bank, founded in 1866, financed the refurbishment and took rooms on the first floor of the town hall. The changes almost amounted to a rebuild. Only a few of them remain today, including the doorway and the little bell tower. The tiny balcony is not only for decoration. Before the invention of the loudspeaker, public announcements were read out to the population here using a horn.

The town hall acquired its current appearance in 1952.

Of the interior of the town hall, only the entrance hall and the wood-panelled council chamber on the second floor are in their original condition. Alongside portraits of Mayors of Ried hang portraits of Maria Theresia and Emperor Joseph II. They commemorate the 1779 Treaty of Teschen, when Innviertel became part of Austria on a permanent basis. The portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I celebrates the granting of Ried’s town charter in 1857.