JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE CLOTH HALL. KRAKOW/POLAND.

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Yom Khamíshí, Kislev 21, 5776. Thrusday, December 3, 2015.

Shalom! World.

The iconic showpiece at the centre of the markt square, the origins and development of Krakow's Cloth Hall can be traced as those of the city itself. Proof of a structure at this site dates back to the mid-13th century. When King Kazimierz the Great approved construction of a purpose-built trading hall in the mid-14th century, Krakow's importance as an east-west trading post vastly increased and  the city thrived.

Though the name "Sukiennice" literally refers to textiles and fabrics, Krakow's Cloth Hall saw an array of commodities bought and sold in its merchant stalls including wax, spieces, leather and silk, as well as lead and salt from the nearby Wieliczka mines. After a fire in the mid-16th century, the Sukiennice was given a Renaissance facelift by Jan Maria Padovano, making it most magnificent building in all of Krakow. By the mid-1870s, however, Poland had been partitioned for nearly a century and the Cloth Hall was a rather sorry state; the Austrians tore down manyof the outbuildings, and oversaw the addition of the neo-Gothic colonnades and outside arcades by Tomasz Prylinski, a student of Jan Matejko. The interior was converted into a series of wooden stalls and in 1879 the first Polish National Museum was established on the upper floor, making the Cloth Hall the focus of a huge upsurge of Polish patriotism.


The 20th century saw much of the 19th century interior replaced, but the start of the 21st century, it was again in need of attention in order to meet the standards of a modern museum or commercial area. From 2006 to 2010, the interiors were given a complete modernisation and the 19th Century Polish Gallery was reopened on the upper floor. The building's sloped attics were converted into lovely terraces on the east side. A stroll through the tourist stalls in the Cloth Hall's central thoroughfare is essential, after which you can claim that you've been in world's oldest shopping mall.

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .

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