Theatre Square. Cieszyn’s first market square was located by the parish church, which was originally wooden. Its rebuilding in brick was begun in 1496. Houses belonging to the gentry were situated along ul. Mennicza; among them Pilutek’s House in which Princess Elizabeth Lucretia set up a mint after 1643. After the great fire of Cieszyn in 1789 the church was pulled down and replaced by army barracks. The German Theatre was erected there between 1908 and 1910.
 

Text: J. Spyra