The Old Town Square and the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary are located in the square, in the vicinity of the Starobrno Brewery. The square is named after the founder of genetics, monk and abbot of the local monastery of Gregor Mendel.

By the end of the 1950s, Mendlovo Square was a square with a parchment in front of the monastery and the basilica, and from the southern side was closed by a number of old houses that did not exist. From the Pekařská Street there were tram tracks running along the monastery and the Brewery Restaurant on Hlinka Street in the direction of Pisárek. In front of the Brewery Restaurant there was a tram line to Vienna's street. Under the square, a flowing mill flowed through the covered channel.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the old houses on the southern side of the square were demolished, the former Klášterní Street. Only the newer multi-storey house still standing in the middle of today's Mendel Square was left from this street. The whole side of the Cross Street was demolished, including the Old Town Hall of that time. The tavern and the adjoining building of the former bathhouse's dressing rooms were demolished at the beginning of today's Exhibition Street.

The resulting area was closed by high-rise panel houses at the Veletržní Street estuary. Tram tracks were transported to the center of this area. Mlynská náhon was canceled (its trough in the direction of Pisárek was in the place of the canceled spa under today's tramway tracks). Tram to Pisárky was translated into a new overpass at the fair. This created Mendel's Square, as we know it at the beginning of the 21st century.

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