Farna Street in Bydgoszcz

Farna Street

Bydgoszcz
Polish: Ulica Farna w Bydgoszczy
Frontages from the Old Market Place
Location of the street in Bydgoszcz
Former name(s)	Pfarrstraße
Part of	Bydgoszcz
Owner	City of Bydgoszcz
Length	110 m (360 ft)
Area	Old Town
Location	Bydgoszcz

Farna Street is a street located in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Many of its buildings are either registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, or part of Bydgoszcz local history.

The street is located in the north-western part Bydgoszcz Old Town. It runs roughly along an east-west axis, connecting the Old Market Square (Polish: Stary Rynek) to Przyrzecze Street near Mill Island. It is about 110 m long.

Farna Street was laid out in the middle of the 14th century, during the formation of Bydgoszcz Old Town. It connected the north-western corner of the Old Market Square to the parish church (Polish: Kościół farny) and to the streets: Jezuicka and Przyrzecze.

The current architecture of the church dates back to the 15th century. In the vicinity of the edifice a cemetery had been standing till 1809, which gate and fences gave stood Farna Street.

The history of this part of the city is related to the Order of the Jesuits, which owned a majority of the dwellings located between today's Farna, Jezuicka, Niedźwiedzia streets and the Old Market Square. In 1619, the Society of Jesus erected a monastery here and around 1640, the construction of two Jesuit buildings on the Market Square closed one side of this quaqrangle area:

During the Swedish Invasions (1660), most of the buildings were burned down, and many others were emptied by their inhabitants before the plague. Properties were then managed by churches, monasteries and hospitals: they were then called tagged as Jesuit.

The structure of the street did not change through time, till the outbreak of the Second World War and the Occupation of Bydgoszcz by Nazi forces. In 1940, Werner Kampe, NSDAP Kreisleiter in the city, ordered the following buildings to be razed: