ul. Krzywe Koło - line with a different shape

Warsaw Old Town street - ul. Krzywe Koło, line with a different shape

This ancient street was laid out around 1300. It owes its shape - reflected in its odd name ("Crooked Wheel") - to the outline of defensive walls as well as to the fact that it was used as a farm road that provided access to plots on the corner of the Old Town Square and ul. Dekerta. At the turn of the 19th century Krzywe Koło was a bustling and crowded street boasting a printing house and no fewer than six taverns. In 1944 most of the houses lining the crooked lane were destroyed. Their rebuilding by 1955 involved substantial changes. Today, despite its long and rich history, Krzywe Koło looks rather nondescript and empty. The best houses along it are the Rogoziński House (no. 2), retaining the original facade; the German Brotherhood House (or Benoński House) at no. 6, which is Warsaw's oldest stone residential building, erected in the 14th century and then altered sev­eral times; and the Montelupi House (no. 10), once a postal inn.