HGIS Lublin is a website containing information about the history of the Lublin city and the region, which enables searching for information about people, events, places and sources. This information is presented on interactive maps, using historical cartographic sources.

We dedicate the service to our late colleague Tadeusz Przystojecki.

HGIS Lublin is a website containing information about the history of the Lublin city and the region, which enables searching for information about people, events, places and sources. This information is presented on interactive maps, using historical cartographic sources.

We dedicate the service to our late colleague Tadeusz Przystojecki.

NN Theatre
×Some parts of this page may be not fully translated. You can use Google Translate to translate missing fragments:

Złota Street

Złota Street leads from the Old Town Square to the Church of the Dominicans. Until the 18th century, it functioned as "Dominikańska" or "To the Church of St. Stanislaus ". It owes its particular shape to the shape of the Old Town itself. At one point there was a depression that ran from the Market Square towards Rybna Street as far as Kowalska Street, while along it the Lublin fortifications were built which stood on the Old Town Hill from the 8th to the 10th century.

Read more

King Władysław Łokietek Square

The history of the King Władysław Łokietek Square dates back to the beginning of the 17th century, when by the decision of King Sigismund III, the moats were filled and the embankments in front of the Kraków Gate were liquidated. The free space was then allocated to house the market square. The shape of the square (similar to the present one) dates back to the beginning of the 19th century when the remains of the Carmelite church and monastery burnt down in 1803 were redeveloped. The New Town Hall was then built which since 1828 serves as one of the main buildings (next to the Krakowska Gate) associated with the Władysław Łokietek Square.

Read more

Gabriel Narutowicz Street

In the 16th century a fragment of the Kraków route, which is a part of the street presently known as Narutowicza Street, was called Panny Marii Street. In 1822, in honor of General Zajączek, the street was renamed to Namiestnikowska, and later to Namiestnika. In 1928 the name was changed to Narutowicza.

Read more

Bernardyńska Street

Bernardyńska Street is named after the former Bernardine monastery and the church of the Conversion of St. Paul located at this site. In 1569, the Bernardine Church played a significant role towards the Union of Lublin.

Read more

3 Maja Street

3 Maja Street is one of the main downtown streets. The name dates back to the 125th anniversary of the Constitution of May 3 in 1916. From the end of the 19th century, the street was called Czechowska, and earlier, Czechówka. Created at the beginning of the 19th century, along with the formation of the Litewski Square adjacent to the street, it initiated the development of buildings in Lublin's Śródmieście district.

Read more

Szambelańska Street

Szambelańska Street runs along the former defensive walls of the Old Town and from the Krakowska Gate to the former Oil Gate. It has long served as a transit route along the defensive walls. At the end of the 18th century, its exit on the side of today's Bramowa Street was closed. At the beginning of the 19th century, a part of the defensive walls was demolished to create space for residential buildings, creating a new route for this street.

Read more

The Hartwig Alley

The Hartwig Alley is a former extension of Rybna Street. Today the Rybny Square  and Kowalska Street are connected with a stairway. It is also where the mouth of a loess ravine used to be, acting as an open storm sewer for the Old Town. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, there was an open street sewer there, Cloaca Maxima, collecting rainwater and waste from the Old Town. In 1835 the sewer was rebuilt into an underground channel. In 1874, stairs leading to Kowalska Street were built over the sewer.

Read more

Lublin bookstore locations in the period between 1806–1945

Lublin bookstore locations in the period between 1806–1945

Before becoming home to the first Polish printing house (1930), Lublin was one of the most important book trade centers in Poland (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?). One of the first bookstores in Lublin was opened by Kazimierz Szczepański around 1806 at 19 Rynek Square. Szczepański's Bookshop operated intermittently until 1852. In the years 1820–1827, the Bookshop of the Lublin Society of Friends of Sciences operated in Krakowskie Przedmieście. In 1828, Samuel Streib's bookshop was established at 136 Krakowskie Przedmieście (now 27 Krakowskie Przedmieście), and it operated until 1856. In 1900, there were 10 bookstores in Lublin, mostly on the main street of the city - Krakowskie Przedmieście. The largest bookstores (trading mainly in books) were: Arcta Bookshop, Słowakiewicz Bookshop, Cederbaum Bookshop, and Kiesewetter Bookshop.

Read more

Jewish printing houses in Lublin

This map shows the places where Jewish printing houses operated in Lublin in the period between 1872 and 1939. This list does not include the printing houses whose address or approximate place of operation is unknown.

Read more