Stary Rynek (Bydgoszcz)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The development on the south side
The memorial for the victims of the Second World War in front of the town hall
The figure of Pan Twardowski appears in the window of one of the houses twice a day .

The Stary Rynek is a central market square in the old town of Bydgoszcz (Poland).

history

The Stary Rynek was laid out in 1346 by the German locators Johann Kesselhuth and Konrad on the instructions of King Casimir the Great . The square is rectangular and measures 100 m × 125 m. The central building of the square is the town hall. It was built between 1644 and 1653 as a Jesuit college. After the order was abolished in 1770, a grammar school was built in the building. In 1879 the city bought the building and made it the seat of the magistrate .

Over the centuries the square has had different names, each related to the political situation:

  • Ring (circulus fori), until the middle of the 18th century.
  • Markt (main market), 1772–1862
  • Friedrichsplatz , 1862–1920
  • Stary Rynek, 1920-1929
  • Stary Rynek im. marszałka J. Piłsudskiego , 1929–1935
  • Rynek Marszałka J. Piłsudskiego, 1935–1939
  • General-von-Kluge- Platz, 1939–1941
  • Friedrichsplatz, 1941–1945
  • Stary Rynek, 1945-1949
  • Plac Bohaterów Stalingradu, 1950–1955
  • Stary Rynek, since 1956

Monuments

  • The no longer existing statue of King Friedrich II. The Great , by sculptor Eduard Uhlenhuth
    Celebration of the laying of the foundation stone on October 21, 1861 in the presence of King Wilhelm I, who was on his way back from his coronation in Königsberg , on Friedrichsplatz. On May 31, 1862, the monument was ceremoniously unveiled in the presence of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm .
    On July 15, 1919, the memorial, which was erected on June 1, 1923 on the Küddow Bridge in Schneidemühl , was dismantled and recovered . After the start of the Second World War, the monument in Schneidemühl was dismantled in September 1939 and re-erected on April 21, 1941 on the edge of Friedrichsplatz in front of the building of the former Chamber Deputation. The memorial has been lost since 1945.
  • Since 1969 the monument to the Bydgoszcz Martyrdom ( Pomnik Męczeństwa Ziemi Bydgoskiej ) stands in front of the town hall . A church stood here until 1940, in front of which mass executions of Polish citizens of the city took place on September 9 and 10, 1939, in retaliation for the Bydgoszcz Bloody Sunday .

Web links

Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 19 ″  N , 18 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E