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History
In 1418 the city authorities established 17 fish stalls here. In the 16th century narrow townhouses with Renaissance arcades were built in their place, their arches resting on sandstone columns. Shops occupied the lower parts, and living rooms the upper ones.
On the capital of the column of house no. 11 you can read the date 1535. The row is closed on the south by a townhouse of 1538 called the City Chancellery or the Scribes' House, today the seat of the Society of Friends of the City of Poznań, founded in 1922 by the mayor Cyryl Ratajski.
During the Second World War the buildings were almost completely destroyed. They were rebuilt in 1953–1961 with polychrome decoration designed by Zbigniew Bednarowicz.
What to see
The emblem of the merchants' guild on house no. 17: a herring and three palms. On the capital of the column of house no. 24 is the house mark of its former owners.
Under the arcades Poznań artists sell their work, most often views of the Old Town. There are also souvenir shops.
Behind the houses runs ul. Kurzanoga, which probably recalls an old townhouse of that name.
