New Town Market (Toruń)

View of the west side

The New Town Market in Toruń ( Rynek Nowomiejski in Polish ) is the central point of the New Town, which was planned in 1264 when the town was founded.

location

The New Town Market is located in the eastern part of the Old Town of Toruń (Thorn).

Characteristic

The market is a square square with sides of approx. 95 meters each, the facades are approx. 70 m long and the sides are oriented at an angle with respect to the cardinal points. From each corner of the market, two perpendicular streets run from each other, forming an extension of the facade: at the eastern corner, hospital street (ul.Szpitalna) and Jakobistraße (ul.św. Jakuba) open, and at the south corner, brewing street (ul.Browarna ) and Schlosserstrasse (ul. Ślusarska), on the west corner of Königin-Hedwig-Strasse (ul. Królowej Jadwigi) and Geradestrasse (ul. Prosta), on the north corner of Tuchstrasse (ul. Sukiennicza) and Katharinenstrasse (ul. Św. Katarzyny). The Jakobikirche is located on the eastern corner.

The development of the market

In the middle of the market there has been the Neustadtrathaus since the beginning of the 14th century, which has the council chamber, the jury's court, chancellery and combing rooms, cloth hall, bread banks and in the cellar (the only Gothic rooms of the town hall that have survived to this day) a pub and a Prison housed. After the old town merged with the new town in 1454, the building became the subsidiary seat of the town authorities, which over time was earmarked for storage space. Since 1668, after the Protestant Neustadt parish had lost the Jakobikirche and after necessary adjustments (especially the demolition of the ceiling between the ground floor and the first floor), it was intended for the Lutheran Trinity Church. The town hall, which was converted into a church, managed to survive until the beginning of the 19th century. Due to the poor technical condition of the building, it was decided to erect a new Trinity Church building on its place. The temple project originally included the use of the existing boundary walls together with the rear facade (only without the stepped gable); the front facade was intended to be demolished. Finally, the neo-Romanesque building based on the design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel was completed in 1824. The church served the evangelical community until 1918, then from 1927 to 1939 it was used as the Orthodox church of the Thorner parish. Today the building became the headquarters of the Tumult Foundation.

The apartment houses of the richest citizens of the new town were located around the market. Due to the less commercial and more artisanal character of the new town, the tenement houses were slightly more modest than their counterparts from the old town. On the site of today's tenement house no. 10, apart from the tenement houses, there have also been meat shops since at least the 14th century. They used the approximately 4.6 m wide plot of land over the entire length of the building block up to Grosse Gerberstrasse (ul. Wielkie Garbary). In the modern era, two of more than 20 new town taverns were functioning on Neustädter Markt: tavern "Zur Blaue Schürzen" (Gospoda pod Modrym Fartuchem) and Maurerwirtshaus (Gospoda Murarska). For this purpose, the new city wedding hall was built in the 16th century on the site of the current tenement house No. 25. Due to several fires in the Neustadt in 1413 and 1455, destruction from the time of the wars against the Teutonic Order in the 15th century and later Swedish and Napoleonic wars, very few buildings from the Middle Ages have survived. In most cases, the shape of the tenement houses preserved today is a result of later conversions from the modern era and from the 19th century.

All sides of the Neustädter Markt and the facades of the corner houses have been registered in the monument register since 1961 under the number A / 1371.

Pages of the Neustädter Markt

East Side
South side
West side
North side

Important tenement houses

South side


object	construction time	Architectural style	Remarks
Neustädter Markt 1 / Jakobistraße 21	1911, 1912	classicism	Stucco decoration of the facade
Neustädter Markt 2	before 1905, 1907	Art Nouveau	Rich Art Nouveau stucco work was demolished in the 1960s, similar to the case of apartment house No. 1. From the renovation in 1907 until the outbreak of war in 1939 it was the seat of the Hotel Europa.
Neustädter Markt 3	15th century, 2nd half of the 17th century, 1865	classicism	From the 18th century until the Second World War, the tenement house belonged to a respected Thorner family Körner. From 1847-1859 it was inhabited by the German writer, satirist and ethnographer Bogumil Goltz.
Neustädter Markt 4	18th century	classicism	On the ground floor of the tenement there was one of the two factory shops owned by Herrmann Thomass, who ran the second largest and oldest gingerbread factory in Thorner.
Neustädter Markt 5	16th century remodeling 17th / 18th century Century, 1891	Baroque	Inhabited until 1921 by the historian and archivist Artur Semrau, who was the curator of the Municipal Museum in the town hall and from 1919-1921 the first monument protector in Thorn. He was also the editor of the journal "Mitteilungen des Coppernicus-Verein für Wissenschaft und Kunst zu Thorn", 1878-1939.
Neustädter Markt 6	15th century, reconstruction at the beginning of the 19th century	Gothic, classicism	Today the parish house of the Jakobikirche is located here - Neustädter parish church.
Neustädter Markt 7	15th century, remodeling 19th century	Gothic	Since the beginning of the 20th century, the tenement house housed the Neustadt inn (Gospoda Nowomiejska) for about ten years.

West side


object	construction time	Architectural style	Remarks
Tavern "To the blue apron" (Gospoda Pod Modrym Fartuchem) Neustädter Markt 8	15th century, thorough renovation in the 1st half of the 18th century, 1957-1959	Baroque	According to tradition, it was founded in 1489 and remained in the possession of the Szalit family for a few hundred years. According to tradition, it was visited by Polish kings and even Napoleon.
Neustädter Markt 9	1st half of the 19th century	classicism
Neustädter Markt 10	1st half of the 19th century	classicism	Ignacy Danielewski (1829–1907), the top-class publisher, man of letters, journalist and editor such as: Gazeta Toruńska (Thorner Zeitung) lived here.
Neustädter Markt 11	80s of the 19th century	classicism
Neustädter Markt 12	1847	classicism
Golden Lion Pharmacy Neustädter Markt 13	15th century, 1624, 1830	Gothic, classicism

North side


object	construction time	Architectural style	Remarks	photos
Maurerwirtshaus Neustädter Markt 17	15th century, remodeling in the 18th century.	Baroque	It houses the voivodeship cultural institution - gallery and center of fine arts for children.

East Side


object	construction time	Architectural style	Remarks
Neustädter Markt 22	19th century	classicism	1939 the seat of the Pomeranian Army Staff. Inhabited since 1936 by Władysław Bortnowski (1891–1966), later commander in chief of the Pomeranian Army during the Polish campaign. Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły stayed here in June 1938, when he came to the patriotic celebration.
Neustädter Markt 23	16th century, remodeling in the 19th century	Renaissance	The former seat of the George Church. During the last renovation work, the facade got a Renaissance character, a cartouche was discovered in the gable. The date 1887 on it proves the time the renovation was carried out and the inscription shows the property of the parish. It has a characteristic decorative gable crowned with the Pomeranian Griffin.
Neustädter Markt 25	15th century, remodeling 19th century	classicism
Neustädter Markt 26	19th century	classicism	Erected on the older walls, two-story.
Neustädter Markt 27		1724, 2nd half of the 19th century	It's a corner house. Additional address is 10 Hospital Street (Szpitalna Street).