Northern frontage of Market Square formerly functioned as a lively Candy Market (Naschmarkt-Seite). Market Square 49 is preserved in almost original condition, one of three trade houses built according to the designs office of Schlesinger&Benedict in the first decade of the twentieth century.

The building is located in the historic area, the site of demolished Renaissance building, which is shown in Figure Frederick Bernard Werner from 1736. Most age eyewitnesses are present cellars, which in the twelfth century were the ground floor of the building. One of the owners was a trader J. Mugdan, who initiated, in 1870, the project to build two more storeys to existing building.

The next owner Louis Cohn in 1901, commissioned the design of trade house to the architects Richard and Paul Ehrlich, who are creators of facade, which we can see to this day. Thus, since 1902 the building represents a unique neo-mannerism, style which is combining Art Nouveau with less popular mannerism. The styling of the twentieth century was an attempt to integrate modern facility with a commercial function with its historic surroundings. That is how a new chapter of Market Square 49 began. From that moment tenement became known as Trade House Trautner. The turn of the nineteen and twenty century was a period of “economic boom”. In Wroclaw that time was built nearly forty trade stores and shopping centers. Eighteen of them were located in the market, changing his previous look, that now we try to faithfully restored.

Chronicle No. 49

• Fame: from 1902 to 1945 the building was functioned as Trading House Trautner, project of architects Richard and Paul Ehrlich.
• Changes, changes: Architect Karl Arlt in 1937 designed open staircase connecting the first, second and third floor of the front building.
• For habitués: Very similar shop-window like this, which was located in the Market Square 49 exist in the former trade store Niepoldshof Street Ruska 51.
• For observants: Facade Market 49 at the connection site on the first floor of the building shows two medallions, one on the western side of the head of Hermes, the other on the eastern side of the head Barbara Uttmann.
• Special signs: Central part of the building is decorated with openwork hemisphere, crystal globe with the inscription Trautner, originally illuminated at night.
• Secrets: An interesting element of the advertising department store was also carved into the sandstone at the top of the east gable inscription Trautner. Until 1908 it was visible above the roof of the lower house Market 48, but after climbing 48 Market trading house inscription was found on its floor.