Stroll Szeroka Street, Toruń, Poland

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Szeroka Street is a part of the most important pedestrian route in the Old Town Complex connecting the New Town and Old Town Square, and then through the so-called Caesar's arch reaching Rapacki Square. This street runs from the intersection of ul. Strumykowa and Przedzamcze to the south-eastern corner of the Old Town Square, approx. 240 meters long. In the Middle Ages, the section from ul. Podmurna to Szczytna was called ul. Wielka (Grossegasse in medieval sources), and from Szczytna to the Old Town Square - Rymary (Corrigatores in medieval sources). From the sideNowy Miasto, at the height of today's Podmurna Street, ended with a city gate, known as the Great or Kotlarska gate, dismantled at the beginning of the 19th century. In the nineteenth century, the street began to gain the character of the main shopping street in Toruń, which it has largely retained to this day. Szeroka Street, like the entire Old Town , has frontage buildings, with multi - axis gable houses , mostly three-story buildings. The buildings have a medieval framework, but as a result of numerous transformations only in one tenement house, at No. 38, a gothic facade has been preserved. The interiors also include elements of Gothic and modern decor, such as wall paintings (No. 16, 22) and polychrome wooden ceilings (tenement houses No. 16, 38, 40). Most of the tenement houses have historicist facades, also with elements of Art Nouveau, or early modernist ones, from the second half of the XIX or early The most interesting buildings include [2] : No. 9, a tenement house on the corner of ul. Podmurna, on a Gothic framework from the 15th century, rebuilt in the 19th century and in 1935; currently the restaurant Szeroka No. 9 No. 10/12, connected tenement houses - baroque from the 18th century and classicist from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries; in the first half In the nineteenth century, it housed a library, and later a bookshop; ob. British School language school and Crédit Agricole bank No. 11, early modern department store from the beginning of XX century, now Vero Moda store No. 14, a former bank from 1909 [3] ; ob. PKO BP bank No.16, a tenement house on a Gothic framework from the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, rebuilt in the mid 18th and 1st half 19th century; inside there is a preserved gothic wall painting with the scene of the Adoration of the Magi and the largest complex of polychrome ceilings in Toruń, from the middle of the 18th century; ob. PKO BP bank No. 18, a tenement house on a Gothic framework; in the years 1678-1875 there was an evangelical chapel here [4] ; in 1877, the building was thoroughly rebuilt for residential purposes 19, originally gothic tenement house, with the rear elevation with a gable and an early modern beam ceiling preserved from that time No. 20, a Gothic tenement house from the 14th century, rebuilt in the 19th century; ob. Orsay chain store No. 21, early modern tenement house from the beginning of the 20th century XX century, now McDonald's No.22, originally gothic tenement house from the 14th century, rebuilt in the 19th century, inside preserved gothic ceilings and wall polychromes No.25, an Art Nouveau tenement house from the beginning of the XX century; in the years 1946-1974, Marian Gumowski, a numismatist and historian, lived there 26/28, an eclectic tenement house, with Art Nouveau decorations, among which there is, among others Toruń coat of arms 27, at the corner with ul. Łazienna - Soviet Pharmacy , established here in 1623 in a tenement house owned by the Toruń City Council (hence the name). The present early modern building comes from the beginning of the 20th century. Twentieth century No. 31, an eclectic tenement house from 1899; by the W. Kruk chain store No. 32, a tenement house on a gothic framework, rebuilt at a later date; preserved wooden ceiling inside; until 2012, the Matras bookstore No.33, an eclectic tenement house from 1909. 34, tenement house on a Gothic framework from the 15th century, inside, on the ground floor, a polychrome wooden ceiling No. 35, an early modern tenement house from 1913, built by the owner of the ironware company CB Dietrich & Sohn, on the site of an earlier gothic tenement house rebuilt in the early modern period; currently a clothing store and the House of Toruń Legends No.36, a neo-Gothic tenement house from 1896. No. 37, tenement house from 1884, in the place of which in the Middle Ages there were meat benches, running all the way to the square next to the church of St. Janów , currently ul. Copernicus. No. 38, a gothic tenement house from the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, with the original facade preserved; inside, a renaissance polychrome ceiling from the end of the 16th century No. 40, a seventeenth-century tenement house on a gothic framework from the fifteenth century, inside a ceiling with a seventeenth-century painting decoration depicting four evangelists and scenes from everyday life No. 42, a tenement house in a Gothic framework from the 15th century, rebuilt in the 19th century and 1906. No. 43, a corner tenement house at ul. Żeglarska, where the former town guardhouse from the end of the 17th century was located. No. 46, a neo-Gothic tenement house from 1891, was built on the site of two so-called kennels (buildings built on shallow plots, without a backyard in the form of a yard); despite the impressive facade decorated with glazed bricks, its depth is only about 4 m; In the 19th century, the Toruń rabbi, a pioneer of Zionism, Cwi Hirsz Kaliszer , lived here , which is commemorated by a plaque unveiled in 2011.

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