Old Town (Gdańsk)

The Gdańsk's Old Town (Polish: Stare Miasto) was a small craft village at the gates of Gdansk in the 14th century. The Gdansk city center, the right city, had received city rights ( Lübisches right ) during the 13th century. The city law thus represents the actual historic old town, and also has better-known building on.

The name of Gdańsk's Old Town may refer to an even earlier settlement, which was destroyed by the Teutonic Knights in 1308 at the takeover of Danzig.

As in Thorn, Elbing, Königsberg, etc. exist as administratively and structurally by city walls and old town moat separate cities right next to each other. South of the town is the right Gdansk suburb in the east of the memory island.

Well-known buildings are the Altstädtisches Town Hall, which was built to the left of the green area in front of the town hall at the Radaune Great Mill, as well as the location on Hevelius 1 Polish Post Office in the interwar period, known by the battle for the Polish post office in Gdansk on September 1, 1939.

The most famous citizens was Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), astronomer and member of the City Council of the old town as well as brewers, whose wife Elisabetha Hevelius was also astronomical works. These had been built on two adjacent houses in the city pepper ( Korzenna ) an observatory.

Additional points of interest

• Radaunekanal
• St. Catherine's Church (Danzig)

Weblink

• Http://www.ostsee-urlaub-polen.de/gdansk/stadtspaziergang-ueberblick.htm
• City map of 1886
• City map of 1932

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• Building in Gdansk
• Historical city center