and towers, relics of tenement houses with cellar vaults) over an area of 500 m2. Once the renovation is achieved, the sector will be free of car traffic. In May 2018, the contractor which won the bid for the modernization of the Old Market Square was announced: local firm Betpol, for a budget of 14.3 million PLN. The main part of the works is to be carried out by mid-November 2018, and the project completed by mid-2019. Construction works started on 25 June 2018. The 18° East line of longitude runs through the center of the Old Market Square. So far this geographical particular is heralded by a small obelisk set on Mill Island: it is foreseen to emphasize this fact on the pavement of the Old Market, once revitalization works are over. Naming Through history, this street had the following names: 16th–18th century, Ring (); 1772–1862, Markt (Hauptmarkt); 1862–1920, Friedrichs-Platz; 1920–1929, Stary Rynek; 1929–1939, Stary Rynek Marshal Józef Piłsudski; 1939–1941, Günther von Kluge-Platz; 1941–1945, Friedrichs-Platz; 1945–1949, Stary Rynek; 1950–1955, Square of the heroes of Stalingrad (); since 1956, Stary Rynek. Main buildings Center part Until 1834, a town hall has been standing at the middle of the market square, similar to one can see today in Gdańsk's or Poznań's main squares. In 1515, the new city hall displayed arcades housing stalls where clothes, bread were sold and under which fairs stood. The building decoration, like all city frontages, featured Renaissance style, and owned a clock tower with an alarm bell, two observation galleries and an onion dome. The edifice was standing adjacent to the city guardhouse. This important secular building of the Jagiellonian period was devastated in the 18th century and completely demolished later on by the Prussian authorities: the tower was razed in the first half of the 18th century, and the rest of the town hall between 1831 and 1834. Northern frontages House at 1 1780 Eclecticism and Neo-classicism Here stands the oldest pharmacy in Bydgoszcz, Under the Golden Eagle (), founded before 1590 at the Jesuit monastery. The institution was in possession of Jesuits until 1795. The pharmacy was bought in 1808 by Ludwik Kupffender, the son of the director of a local sugar factory. On 4 October 1909 Alfred Kupffender (who owned the firm until 1921), the fountain Children playing with geese in front of his plot to commemorate 100 years of family business of