Wide alley
The Breite Gasse , in Polish Ulica Szeroka , is a shopping street in the center of Gdansk .
It is located in the former right-wing town and runs in a west-east direction from the Holzmarkt to the crane gate .
history
The oldest mention of it as ampla platea , which was the center of what was then the Neustadt ( civitas nova ) of the Rechtstadt and led to the Breite Tor , is from 1354 .
The city courtyards of the Cistercian Monastery of Oliva and the Carthusian Monastery of Karthaus have been located there since the Middle Ages . In the centuries that followed, it was mainly business people who settled there. There was the famous schnapps distillery Der Lachs . The organ builder Andreas Hildebrandt had a workshop here in the 18th century. There were jewelry and clothing stores, some owned by Jews. The publisher Gustav Fuchs founded a publishing house in the 19th century. There was a synagogue and a Jewish theater.
In 1945 most of the houses were destroyed. Some road sections were reconstructed in the 1950s. Today there are shops, cafes and restaurants, a Günter Grass gallery, apartments and parks.
building
Existing buildings
Reconstructed or rebuilt
- Crane gate to Motława, in the 14th century wide gate
- House no. 34/37, today a gallery with works of art by Günter Grass
- House no. 51/52, former Der Lachs schnapps distillery , now a restaurant
- No. 82, formerly the Jewish Café Kantor , 1934–1938 Jewish Theater
More buildings
(received or not received?)
- No. 90–94, formerly Verlag Fuchs & Cie. by Gustav and Hans Fuchs , there the Danzig Latest News appeared
- No. 122, the former home of the organ builder Andreas Hildebrandt and his successor Friedrich Rudolf Dalitz in the 18th century
- No. 130/132, formerly a synagogue from 1820 to 1889, then a shop at this point
- Wood market
Web links
- Szeroka Gedanopedia (Polish)
- City map Danzig 1932 Breite Gasse between Marienkirche and Dominikanerplatz, in the middle of the map
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breitgasse Danzig.at (names to 19th centuries)
- ↑ Breitgasse Gdańsk.pl, with theatrical poster, and last paragraphs (German)