Speichergasse

The platea prima comes from the fact that initially the streets on the Granary Island were numbered, once from the north toward Milchkannengasse, and a second time beginning at Milchkannengasse heading south. Thus our lane was simply called First Street. After 1643, the name Judengasse (Jewish Lane) was transferred from what then became Milchkannengasse to this street. Only in 1936 was it too "Aryanized." Nevertheless, at the end of 1939 the ghetto for the 600 Jews still remaining in Danzig was established right here in one of the granaries. The ghetto was dissolved around 1942. After the war, only ruins remained in this lane, yet it was still recorded in older city maps as ul. Spichrzowa. This changed in the 1950s — the ruins were cleared away and it disappeared from city maps. Only at the end of the 1990s did it reappear on city maps; today a completely new development of this lane is being planned. Translated, it is called Granary Lane today.