Old town in Gliwice

The old town

The Neptune Fountain

Residential building

city ​​wall

The area of ​​the old town in Gliwice corresponds to the historical city center .

The old town has the shape of an oval, the outermost streets of which are ulica Dolnych Wałów (Niederwallstraße) and ulica Górnych Wałów (Oberwallstraße). The streets within this oval are laid out like a chessboard, in the middle of which is the so-called ring , the square market square of the old town.

The old town had an axis of 386 m and covers an area of ​​9.1 ha.

The oval floor plan was surrounded by a city wall, of which only a few remains are left. It had two gates: the Ratiborer Tor (also Black Gate) and the Beuthener Tor (White Gate), 29 towers (bastions) and had a height of nine meters, a width of 1.2 m and a length of 1125 m.

Attractions

• The town hall
• The lock
• The defensive wall
• The All Saints Church
• Historic apartment buildings

Still images

• The Neptune Fountain

Streets

East-West direction

• Church Street (Kościelna)
• Parish Street (Plebańska) - Tarnowitzr Street (Jana Matejki)
• Ratiborer road (Raciborska) - Beuthener road (Bytomska) - Tower Road (Basztowa)
• Long Street (Kaczyniec)
• Wall Street (Grodowa) - Wetz ( Wysoka and Pod Murami )

North-south direction

• Middle Street (Średnia)
• Karlstrasse (Krupnicza) - Short Lane (Krótka)
• Bankstrasse (Bankowa) - Schützenstrasse (today part of Zwycięstwa )
• Stockgasse (Tkacka)

Marketplaces

Ring (rynek) Church Square (Plac Wszystkich Świętych)

Milk Market (Plac Mleczny) Meat Market (Plac Rzeźniczy)

Karlsplatz (today part of Krupnicza) Wilhelmsplatz (Plac Inwalidów Wojennych)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical permanent exhibition. In: muzeum.gliwice.pl. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on August 29, 2015 .