Śródmieście, Gdańsk

Śródmieście
Śródmieście
Gdańsk District
	View of Długi Targ and Gdańsk Town Hall
	Location of Brzeźno within Gdańsk
	Coordinates: 54°24′27″N 18°37′53″E / 54.40750°N 18.63139°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County/City	Gdańsk
Area
• Total	5.65 km2 (2.18 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	29,630
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	80-500
Area code(s)	+48 58

Śródmieście ([ɕrudˈmjeɕt͡ɕe]; means "city centre"; Kashubian: Westrzódgardzé) is a district (dzielnica) of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. Śródmieście is commonly referred to as Main City, Old City, or simply Gdańsk, since the quarter is equivalent to the traditional area of the city.

Location[]

The quarter is located in the centre-eastern part of Gdańsk, on the River Motława to its west and east. To its north-east, the quarter borders the Przeróbka quarter on Port Island by the Martwa Wisła River. To its south and east, the quarter is bordered by the , via which the quarter borders the quarters of Rudniki, Olszynka and Orunia-Św. Wojciech-Lipce. To the south-west of Śródmieście, via Biskupia Górka, the quarter borders Chełm, to the west with Siedlce. Śródmieście borders Aniołki and Młyniska to its north.

Quarter subdivisions[]

Długie Pobrzeże and Motława River.

Gdańsk Główny railway station.

Wyspa Spichrzów granaries.

Na Stepcę Canal.

The following morphological units are located in Śródmieście:

Division	Short description	Location in Śródmieście
Główne Miasto	The oldest borough of the Gdańsk agglomeration from the ninth-century. A fortified trade port between the tenth and thirteen-century. Municipal government based on Lübeck law between 1261–1263.
Stare Miasto	Settled between 970–980, after 1433 surrounded by palisades and a motte.
Stare Przedmieście	An unfortified subdivision of Główne Miasto. Since 1360, gardens and ship workshops.
Wyspa Spichrzów	Around 1330, the first granaries were built, as well as a butcher, city folwark, Popielny Court (Dwór Popielny) and storehouses.
Długie Ogrody	c. 1360 - meadows and rental gardens (patrimonium). An undefensed borough was built at the beginning of the fifteenth-century.
Ołowianka	Between 1343–1454, property of the Teutonic Order.
Dolne Miasto	Garden borough.
Nowe Ogrody	Hospital and St. Gertrude's Church built in 1342.
Grodzisko	Defensive gord built in the ninth-tenth-century. City fortifications built in 1656 and 1807.
Biskupia Górka	Property of the Bishops of Wrocław, bishop's court. City fortifications built in the seventeenth-century.
Zaroślak	Teutonic settlement from 1365.
Sienna Grobla	Blockhouse on the from the eighteenth-century.
Rudno	Part of the Długie Ogrody from the fifteenth and sixteenth-century.