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A wide view of the Main Market Square. In the background, the Cloth Hall with its attic parapet and a tower with a clock; on the square, carts, cabs and people by the stalls.
Ignacy Krieger, 1872. Public domain.

The Kriegers' Kraków · stop 2 of 9

The Main Market Square before the rebuilding

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The Main Market Square and the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in Ignacy Krieger's photograph from 1872. Carts, cabs and stalls stand on the square. The rebuilding of the Cloth Hall began three years later, in 1875.

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The same building two years later. The square is full of carts, horses and people at the stalls. Krieger sets up his camera far back to fit everything in: the trade, the cobbles and the sky above the parapet.

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