Plac Solny we Wrocławiu

Summing up the discussions presented in the article, it has to be stated that the preserved source materials and accounts contained in the studies unfortunately have not allowed for clarifying the questions and doubts which were presented at the beginning of work on this subject matter. This article is exclusively an attempt at shedding some light on them and in no case exhausts any of the abovementioned issues. However, in a certain range it allows for verifying the view about the relatively small number of accounts, which have been published in the context of organisation of salt trade in the area of Wrocław and the Salt Market Square. It is particularly characteristic that during the analysis of individual works of authors dealing with the above-mentioned issues, it is possible to notice certain repetitiveness of verified information, based probably on one (preserved) source. Only few contain unknown and unquoted pieces of information, which are to be sought in vain in the majority of studies or articles. It goes without doubts that examination of issues mentioned in the article would be possible exclusively thanks to long-lasting queries conducted in the Wrocław archives. The question pertaining to the quantity of Wieliczka salt reaching the Wrocław market and organisation of daily work at the Salt Market Square, in particular in the modern times, remains valid. International policy, inseparably linked to trade, had to regulate the quantity and the quality of salt which arrived at one of the most important municipal markets from foreign suppliers of the mineral. In the future studies, it is worth taking into account the thread pertaining to goods imported from Silesia to Kraków or Wieliczka as part of exchange of commodities conducted for long centuries between the neighbouring states. This could become interesting elaboration of the issue tackled by several historians and significantly enrich the literature created to date. Restoration of former names and modern revitalisation of certain facilities of municipal infrastructure along with names which are still functioning, such as the Salt Market Square or the Salt Alley, in spite of various difficulties, encourage one to undertake an attempt at answering the questions which appear after reading papers devoted to the economic history of Silesia and its capital. One of the most important ones is: is restoration of the original name of the Salt Market Square only a return to the traditional nomenclature or is it also associated by the contemporary city dwellers with the interesting history of sale of one of the most important seasonings and preservatives that salt was in the past.