Pod Łososiem, Gdańsk — A Lost Old Pub

What happened

Pod Łososiem — Der Lachs, the Salmon — stood at Szeroka 52/54 in Gdańsk's Main Town, in a house rebuilt after the war and entered in the Polish heritage register in 1972. Its 1598 is real but dates the wrong thing: the Encyclopedia of Gdańsk records that Ambrosius Vermöllen, a Mennonite distiller from the Netherlands, took Gdańsk citizenship on 18 July 1598, and that Goldwasser was made at Breitgasse 51/52 only from 1704, in a house his heirs rented from the Cistercians of Oliwa, where there was also a tasting room and restaurant called Der Lachs. The gold-flecked liqueur made the address famous across Europe. The distillery and its drinking room ended in 1945, when the owners left for Germany with the recipes and the street burned. A state-era restaurant reopened in the rebuilt house in 1976 and was taken on by the Robakowski family, who kept the rococo rooms, the collections on the walls and Goldwasser on the list. In August 2019 Radio Gdańsk reported Mieczysław Robakowski saying he was looking for a buyer who would continue the tradition, and that without one the restaurant would have to shut; it shut that September, and a French restaurant called Winne Grono moved in that November and left again in 2022.

What is there now

A themed restaurant. OpenStreetMap records Ministerstwo Magii — the Ministry of Magic — at Szeroka 52/54 with lunchtime hours, in the house still named Dom Pod Łososiem, and Goldwasser is now made in Gdańsk by a separate company rather than at this address.

Location recorded from OSM way/96656678 — OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), the building addressed Szeroka 52/54 and named Dom Pod Łososiem, 2026-09-12 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/96656678).

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