Old Market square

Bydgoszcz Old Market square is a rectangular place, located inside the vintage city district of the town of Bydgoszcz. The City Hall flanks one among its aspect, and close by is positioned St. Martin and St. Nicholas Cathedral. Bydgoszcz market location has been charted in 1346, then paved in 1604. Until the give up of the 17^th century, court docket judgments had been done there in public. It was the administrative and industrial heart of the metropolis till the start of the 20^th century, wherein Bydgoszcz financial, cultural and social existence teemed. The market and the rim of homes placed around constituted the middle of the nascent metropolis.

Archaeological diggings carried out in the place of the area unearthed early Middle Ages artefacts, indicating that the place become inhabited earlier than Bydgoszcz established order. Oldest gadgets, courting back to pre-agreement, have been observed within the north-east corner of the Old Market Square: ceramics from the 12^th century and starting of the 13^th century. Objects from the Lusatian way of life have even been recorded under the early medieval layer, in numerous locations across the region.