It first appeared on city plans from the middle of the 18th century as part of the Eimermacherhof. The name itself came into use after 1814. Before 1937, the lane was renamed from Gasse to Hufschmiedegang, but the houses standing there were assigned to the Große Bäckergasse as its house number "3". According to Polish sources, after the war the lane simultaneously bore two names: Kowale (Smiths) and Kuźnia (Smithy). The first of these names can mean both "a settlement inhabited by smiths obligated to service" and the plural of the word "smith." The second name, on the other hand, means only the workplace of a smith. This droll situation probably arose because the renamings were carried out by several committees working independently of one another. This situation did not last long, however, for after the ruins were cleared away, this lane disappeared as well.

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