Czysta Street in Kraków is a street in Kraków, in District I Old Town, in Piasek.
It runs from Dolnych Młynów Street and Mieczysław Kuznowicz Square in the east to Adam Mickiewicz Avenue (without a physical road connection) in the west.
History.
The street was laid out in its current form in 1891. At that time, the area belonged to Tomasz Pryliński, an architect and the author of, among other projects, the redesign of the Cloth Hall. The street's name was assigned in 1892. Earlier proposed names included "Mączna" or "Młynarska," derived from the nearby Dolne Młyny (Lower Mills) along the now non-existent branch of the Rudawa River – the Młynówka Królewska (Royal Millstream), as well as "Fabryczna," referring to a nearby cigar factory.
This area was once home to Kraków's oldest Jewish cemetery, which may have even encompassed the site of the current main building of the AGH University of Science and Technology. It was first mentioned in 1311. Its location here was likely due to the proximity of Kraków's first Jewish quarter on St. Anna Street (formerly known as Jewish Street). After the relocation of Kraków's Jews to Kazimierz in 1495, the cemetery gradually lost its significance. The last recorded mention of it dates back to 1599.
Buildings.
The street's development is uniform, compact, and almost exclusively residential. It primarily consists of tenement houses, mostly two-story, some later extended, built in the 1890s and early 20th century. Their facades feature historicism with simple architectural details, while some are in the modernist style.