Piwnica Świdnicka, Wrocław

Piwnica Świdnicka

Rynek-Ratusz 1A, 50-106 Wrocław

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Sept 2026

Piwnica Świdnicka claims 1273. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed

1273

First record

none found

Building

no single date

The building. Gothic cellars beneath the Old Town Hall, which was built in stages from the end of the 13th century to the 16th; the hall above them is first named in a rent account of 1299, which describes a ground floor, a cellar, a hall under a roof and a west tower, used then for trade rather than government.

Cellar

Brewery tap

Food

Historic interior

The claim

Beneath Wrocław's Gothic town hall, vaulted brick cellars have served beer since the Middle Ages, when the city's burghers drank strong ale imported from Świdnica. Claiming 1273 as its birth year, Piwnica Świdnicka today mixes a restaurant with a small brewery installed in 2022, the first beer made within these walls in its long history.

What the records show

The vaults under the town hall sold strong Świdnica beer in the Middle Ages and the year 1273 is painted over the entrance, but no document for it has been traced. The city of Wrocław's own news service dates the gap this page could previously only call an interruption: trading stopped in 2017 and the cellar reopened on 2 July 2022 after five years shut, with a brewery newly installed in the vaults whose first beer was expected that August. The operator dates the house to the thirteenth century and calls it the oldest representative city inn in the world.

What to look for inside

Cellars beneath Wrocław's Old Town Hall, first named in a rent account of 1299
Named after beer shipped from Świdnica
A ducal privilege of 28 September 1273 gave the council the right to sell beer
Accounts of 1332 record Świdnica beer brought in
On-site brewery installed 2022
Claims to be Europe's oldest restaurant

Visiting

Piwnica Świdnicka is in Wrocław, Poland, at Rynek-Ratusz 1A, 50-106 Wrocław. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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