As part of the Eimermacherhof (bucket maker's yard), the street has appeared on city maps since the mid-18th century. The name Schmiedegang (Smiths' Alley) itself only came into use after 1814.

Before 1937, the lane was renamed Hufschmiedegang (Farrier's Alley), but the houses standing there were assigned to Große Bäckergasse as house number 3. According to Polish sources, after the war the lane simultaneously bore two names: Kowale (Smiths) and Kuźnia (Smithy). The first name can mean both "a settlement inhabited by smiths obligated to service" and the plural of the word "smith." The second name, however, only refers to a smith's workplace. This peculiar situation probably arose because the renamings were carried out by several committees working independently of each other. This state of affairs did not last long, however, for after the ruins were cleared away, this lane also disappeared.

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