Wide alley

Wide street, reconstructed houses, formerly the Jewish theater there

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

Danzig around 1600, Breitgasse between Marienkirche and Dominican monastery in the middle

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

Commons : Breite Straße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Szeroka Gedanopedia (Polish)
• City map Danzig 1932 Breite Gasse between Marienkirche and Dominikanerplatz, in the middle of the map

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Breitgasse Danzig.at (names to 19th centuries)
2. ↑ Breitgasse Gdańsk.pl, with theatrical poster, and last paragraphs (German)