Bazaar

Bazaar

It was built between 1838 and 1842. The original late Classicial building had a façade on today's Paderewski Street. At the end of the 19th century the west wing was added in place of a demolished house, with a façade at Marcinkowski Street. During the times of partition of Poland, it was an important centre of Polish social and economic activities. In the ground-floor rooms there were Polish merchants' shop, among them Hipolit Cegielski's iron shop.

In the hotel Ignacy Jan Paderewski stayed a number of times, and the razing of the building in 1918 became a pretext for Great Poland's Uprising.

The Bazaar building was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in 1949. Until 1988 it housed a hotel. After the renovation in 1990 it was returned to its owners. On its walls some memorial plaques are set, memorializing Cegielski's iron shop and Henryk Sienkiewicz reading his short story "For Bread" (Za chlebem) to the audience.