The area is New market centre of the New town, founded in 1264 in Torun. The area is a square about the size of 95 x 95 meters, it boasts many historic buildings.

In the town Hall, built in the Gothic style in the early fourteenth century, was located in the courtroom and the court. On the first floor was commercial premises: shops and artisan shops. The basement was used as a prison and city beer. After the merger of the Old city with the New city, the town Hall was converted into the Church of the Holy Trinity. Due to poor technical condition it was demolished in 1818, and on its foundations was built the Romanesque Church opened in 1824.

Around the New market house was located wealthy citizens of Torun, which, however, was inferior to the more sophisticated buildings of the Old market. Due to the large number of calamities which befell the city, and as a result and Swedish Napoleonic wars to the present day survived only a few medieval buildings. Most houses were built in the Gothic style in the second half of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Apartment buildings appeared in the New market in the nineteenth century.

Among the most famous monuments of the New market historical pharmacy "Golden lion" operating since 1624. The current pharmacy building was built in 1830 in a classic style by combining two adjacent buildings: the Gothic house 1,400 years and half-timbered buildings, 1819. Above the entrance to the pharmacy is a gilded wooden statue of a lion, which is the emblem of pharmacy since its inception.