The oldest element preserved in the vicinity of the Market Square can be found at the back of the house at Farna Street 6: it is a stone tablet with a Latin carving, displaying the date (1593) of the building and the initials of the owner -Bartosz Krąpiewski-, city councilor and mayor of Bydgoszcz between 1599 and 1603.

[8] At the beginning of the 17th century, at its heyday before the Polish partitions period, chronicler Wojciech Łochowski described Bydgoszcz as follows: "The whole city is girdled by a wall, there is a high tower at the forefront of the market, from 1600, neatly set, and the town hall is decorated with brick.

Among the most famous visitors, one can cite:[11] From 26 October to 6 November 1657 the Jesuit college in Bydgoszcz housed negotiations between John II Casimir Vasa and the Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William, which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Bromberg on the Old Market.

In the last quarter of the 18th century, there was no more parcels left: on the corner with John II Casimir street was constructed a large building, dedicated to host the Netze District authorities and the Court of Appeal.

At the beginning of the 19th-century (Napoleonic Wars), the Old Market Square was the location where important "political" speeches were made: on 6 December 1806 an anti-Prussian uprising was publicly proclaimed, and on 19 February 1807, a decree supporting the Duchy of Warsaw was solemnly read.

Today's Provincial and Municipal Public Library building then housed the seat of Bydgoszcz Department and the ex-Jesuit college hosted the main school of the region.

Between 1830 and 1834, the Prussian authorities demolished the remains of the old town hall which was standing up in the middle of the actual square: municipal offices were moved to the tenement house at Długa street 37 (today's Ratuszowy hotel).

At the cornerstone laying ceremony on 21 October 1861, highly distinguished guests were present, among whom the King of Prussia William I and his son the prince Frederick III, both accompanied by their wives Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Victoria.

This fountain with a well, realized by sculptor Karol Kowalczewski, has been funded by Alfred Kupffender, owner of the pharmacy "Under the Golden Eagle" (Polish: Pod Złotym Orłem), located on the north-west corner of the place.

At the beginning of 1940, German authorities began to demolish the Jesuit church, the entire western frontage of the Old Market Square -including the tenement house hosting the regional Museum (at Nr.

Intended project was to build a new town hall with a National socialist style, as well as widening Mostowa street to create a parade avenue for the Wehrmacht.

As for the plot where the former Jesuit church used to stand, city authorities unveiled there on 5 September 1969, a monument commemorating the Struggle and Martyrdom of Bydgoszcz Land (Polish: Pomnik Walki i Męczeństwa Ziemi Bydgoskiej).

[2] On 3 May 1981 bishop Jan Michalski celebrated a mass for the homeland from the stairs of the library, in front of an audience of 100.000 gathered on the Old Market Square; the reader was Daniel Olbrychski.

[26] The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Inspector of Monuments, on the rationale of the diggings report, barred the realization of the fountain so as to preserve the foundations on the western frontage (church walls and towers, relics of tenement houses with cellar vaults) over an area of 500 m2.

The building decoration, like all city frontages, featured Renaissance style, and owned a clock tower with an alarm bell, two observation galleries and an onion dome.

House at 1 1780[35] Eclecticism and Neo-classicism Here stands the oldest pharmacy in Bydgoszcz, Under the Golden Eagle (Polish: Pod Złotym Orłem), founded before 1590 at the Jesuit monastery.

On 4 October 1909 Alfred Kupffender (who owned the firm until 1921), the fountain Children playing with geese in front of his plot to commemorate 100 years of family business of the pharmacy.

However, they abandoned it, as both had other dwellings to supervise: Franciszek the domain of Bukowiec -40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Bydgoszcz-, his sister Antonina, having married Antoni Skórzewski, the village of Kretków near Poznań.

15 and 17, in the late 19th century, Leon Brückmann, a merchant, built a modern department store,[39] which in 1921 became the property of the firm Konfektcyjny S.A. from Poznań, and in 1929 the Dom Towarowy Braci Mateckich ran by brothers Czesław and Władysław Matecki.

[38] To revive Pan Twardowski's legend as a local folklore, the city of Bydgoszcz unveiled, on 2 June 2006, a sculpture of him, by Jerzy Kędziora, portrayed as a man dressed like a Sarmatian wearing a kontusz, a cap with a heron's feather, a karabela by his side and the Deal with the Devil paper in his hand.

House at 27, corner with Magdzińskiego street 1775[35] Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List (Nr.A/1278), 3 April 2007[47] Italian Neo-Renaissance This tenement was surnamed Under the Golden Salmon (Polish: Pod Złotym Łososiem) after a local inn located there.

It was one of the most popular clubs in Bydgoszcz, in the 1970s and 1980s, especially frequented by bohemian artists, flourishing with various musical forms: jazz, baroque, opera, sung poetry, piano recitals.

The frontage giving on the Old Market is peculiarly decorated, with a narrow bay window flouncing out the elevation, capped with plastered bat-shaped gargoyles supporting a tiny balcony.

The adjoined buildings which were razed, housed, successively the police HQ (from the beginning of the 19th century), the Municipal Savings Bank, and the Regional Museum "Leon Wyczółkowski" (1923–1939).

At those times, the establishment received the visit of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Tadeusz Czacki, while having as students, among others, Stefan Florian Garczyński, a poet and friend of Adam Mickiewicz, growing up with relatives at the Skórzewski Palace in Lubostroń.

The design of the reconstruction works to fit the city assembly was realized by councilor Wilhelm Lincke with brick master Albert Rose and carpenter Heinrich Mautz.

[47] Two plaques can be noticed on the walls of the city hall: Monument to Struggle and Martyrdom of the Bydgoszcz Land (Polish: Pomnik Walki i Męczeństwa Ziemi Bydgoskiej) In order to commemorate the public executions carried out by Nazis in 1939, also called Bydgoszcz Bloody Sunday, the city council funded, in 1946, the realization of a first memorial located in front of the town hall on the Old Market Square: it was a black granite slab, lying on a low plinth, where was engraved a cross and the following dedication: Sanctified by the Martyr's Blood of Poles Fighting for Freedom.

[67] The ceremony of unveiling of the former Warsaw ghetto monument was held on 5 September 1969, the 30th anniversary of the occupation of Bydgoszcz by Nazi soldiers,[66] in presence of the chairman of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites (Polish: Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa), the minister Janusz Wieczorek, the head of the city council Kazimierz Maludziński, and many representatives of local authorities, political parties, as well as numerous inhabitants.

[66] Besides, the full project planned to build a Museum of Combat and Martyrdom, collecting documents of Nazi crimes, on the area of the former western frontage, in front of the town hall: this scheme was never accomplished.

[15] At the beginning of the 1990s, beside the monument, four concrete plinths carrying bronze plates were placed: The political changes after 1989 added new plaques to the memorial, to commemorate the victims of the Stalinist terror.