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There are now 60 numbered plots on the market square, with some buildings occupying several. 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. Each property has a traditional name, usually associated
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between 1214 and 1232. 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. In the 19th century the square was connected to the
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The inner block stands with an alignment which varies by 7° from that of the outline of the square and surrounding street plan. The reason for this variation has not been established conclusively.
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In the buildings on the middle square there are three parallel small streets (Sukiennice, Przejście Żelaźnicze, Przejście Garncarskie) and one perpendicular to them (Zaułek Jerzego Grotowskiego).
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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
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although much of the city was destroyed or damaged, the market did not suffer much damage. The square was restored according to the way it looked in the late 18th century, using
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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
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Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii.
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with the coat of arms visible on the facade or related to the history of the house itself, for instance
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The Market Square is one of the three historic market squares in the city's old town, next to the
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The Legacies of Others. Dealing with Historic Cityspaces in Soviet Lviv and Communist Wrocław
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Forum urbes mediiaevi. 1.Sborník příspěvků z konference FUMA konané 10. dubna 2002
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Cezary Buśko, Archeologia lokacyjnego Wrocławia, in Rudolf Procházka:
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The east side was historically known as the "Green Pipe Side" (
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lines, at first a horse-drawn system, but after 1892 electric.
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on the copper gutters and downpipes. Its name in Polish is
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Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century
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A prominent element of the block is the late-Gothic
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Wrocław City Council
Wrocław
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Poland
51°6′36″N 17°1′55″E / 51.11000°N 17.03194°E / 51.11000; 17.03194
Historic Monument of Poland
Polish
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market square
Wrocław
Poland
pedestrian zone
city halls
Salt Market Square
New Market Square
Old City Hall
New City Hall
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St. Elizabeth's Church
Magdeburg law
Polish Duke
Henry I the Bearded
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