St. Bartholomäi-Kirchgasse

St. Bartholomew's Church was probably built after the abandonment of the Jungstadt (Young Town) as a replacement for the Young Town's parish church of St. Bartholomew, which had been relocated to the Altstadt (Old Town). The latter is no longer mentioned after 1459. However, by 1456 the Old Town's Bartholomew Church was already recorded, though still referred to as a chapel. Its expansion into a full church took place between 1487 and 1491.

As early as 1456, the boundaries of its parish had been drawn against that of St. Catherine's, likely prompted by the population growth in the quarter east of Pfefferstadt, where a large portion of the Jungstadt's former residents had settled. The parish boundary document of 1456 already lists the "platea Bartholomäi."

However, this name applied only to the section between Faulgraben and Böttchergasse, which in the 16th and 17th centuries was also called "Halbengasse Kegenst St. Bartelmes." The section between Böttchergasse and Baumgartsche Gasse was known from the 16th century onward as "Kumstgasse" (derived from Kumst, meaning cabbage). On maps from the 18th and 19th centuries, the corrupted form "Kunstgasse" (Art Lane) occasionally appears. The name Kumstgasse was retired in 1899. The Bartholomew churchyard has always been part of the church grounds.

One must admire the ability of the old Danzigers to turn plain cabbage (Kumst) in a lane into high art (Kunst) in the very same lane.