Kraków Streets

Many researchers find that Kraków's street names are particularly confusing. A lot of this confusion arises from:

• Transcription errors: Volunteers who transcribed old documents for this website had particular difficulty in reading and transcribing the many poorly typed original documents.
• Spelling errors: Many old documents show numerous spelling errors and variations. For example, Florjanska Street is often spelled Florianska.
• Diacritics: The Polish alphabet has many letters not found in the typical Western alphabet ( e.g., the letters Ł, Ą, and Ę ). Because these letters have a different pronunciation, this too has resulted in confusion, as different people transcribe these letters in different ways.
• Changing Names: Some streets that were present 100 years ago, either no longer exist or else have had their names changed.

In an attempt to create some degree of uniformity, Bruce Morgenstern has compiled a list of Kraków street names that is shown below. This list was gleaned from numerous sources, including the 1907 Houseowners Directory, 1929 Kraków Business Directory, and the 1929 Voters Registration List. The diacritics have been deliberately omitted.

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