Eleven streets lead to the market: two to each corner, two narrow lanes, and an open outside square, Kurzy Targ (lit.

Over time, the patricians' houses appeared and by the middle of the 14th century they had formed a closed construction with the limits of the plots defined.

The limits of the plots often follow lines different from those first laid out since estates were often merged and divided in the late Middle Ages.

The layout of the Market Square is associated with the earliest settlement on the left bank of the Oder River within Wrocław's current boundaries.

According to art historian Marian Morelowski, in the first half of the 13th century, before the Market Square was established, a building used for selling cloth stood in this location.

Around 1232, Duke Henry the Bearded established the town with the Main Market Square, featuring stalls; a second settlement charter was granted between 1241 and March 11, 1242, by Bolesław Rogatka.

According to Małgorzata Chorowska, the square was oriented latitudinally in line with the Via Regia trade route, connecting France, Flanders, the Rhineland, central Germany, southern Poland, and Ruthenia.

The plots surrounding the Market Square were divided into thirty-six equal townhouses: ten on the north and south sides, and eight on the west and east.

By the 19th century, plots had been subdivided into smaller halves and quarters and subsequently recombined, ultimately forming sixty lots, five of which now have dual numbering.

In the early 13th century, wooden buildings stood here, and Kurzy Targ Street was designated in the 1250s to connect the Market Square to St. Mary Magdalene's Church.

Roland Mruczek determined 1481 as the upper limit for setting this street, marking the date when the building at Kurzy Targ No.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century, two-thirds of buildings in the middle of the square, were demolished and replaced by offices and retail establishments designed in Historicism and Modern styles.

In 1931, on the west side of the Market Square, at location tenement houses 9 to 11, architect Heinrich Rump designed a modernist and controversial high office building (now the Santander Bank Polska, formerly the seat of MPK Wrocław).