Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ginin da ba a yi niyyar amfani da shi a kurkuku ba an tsara shi ne da masanin gine-ginen Poland Ferdynand Liebling (18771942) a matsayin gidan kotu mai amfani da hadadden abu-ofishin haraji na garin Podgórze ("Ger. ", Josefsstadt) kuma an gina shi a 1905 lokacin da yankin ke ƙarƙashin mamayar Austriya. Ba a san ranar da aka kafa wuraren kurkuku a wuraren ba. Podgórze, asalin gari ne daban, an haɗa shi cikin karamar hukumar Cracow ta hanyar shawarar majalisar garin Podgórze a 1915. Rikodin lokacin yaƙi, gami da abubuwan tunawa na Tadeusz Pankiewicz, sun nuna cewa kotu har yanzu tana aiki a nan
Lokacin Nazi na Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, aƙalla a zahiri (gidan kurkuku shine babban fasalin), yayin da rahotannin manema labarai na zamanin kwaminisanci suka ambaci kotun da ke aiki tare da kurkuku a harabar gidan a cikin shekarun bayan Yaƙin, suna ba da shawarar canzawa zuwa amfani da kurkuku gaba ɗaya a 1971 lokacin da kotun ta daina aiki. Gidan gidan yarin gidan yarin ya kasance a cikin shekarun bayan yakin wani ofishin Hukumar Kula da Yanki don Binciken Laifukan Nazi (Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich, wata hukumar gwamnati da ta daina aiki yanzu ta shiga cikin IPN wanda ya hada da Kwaminisanci ban da laifukan Nazi).