Type Habitation house Address Gdanska Street 93 Opened 1896 Construction started 1895 | Location Bydgoszcz, Poland Country Poland Floors 4 Architect Józef Święcicki | |
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Architectural style German Historicism, rokoko elements Classification N°A/1126/1-4, 5 June 1993 Similar Hugo Hecht tenement, Theonia Reichhardt House in, Villa Hugo Hecht in Bydgoszcz, Alexander Timm House | ||
The Carl Bradtke Tenement is a historical habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°93, in Bydgoszcz.
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Location
The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Świętojańska street and Chocimska street.
It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
History
The house was built in 1895-1896, on a design by architect Joseph Święcicki for a master stonecutter Carl Bradtke. Carl Bradtke worked also with Fritz Weidner for the erection of nearby building at N°91.
The house, from the beginning, had been thought as a rental building as well as a trading one with two wings merging at the rear. The initials of the first owner ("CB") appear in a cartouche set in an upper pediment. The address of the house was then "Danzigerstrasse 53, Bromberg".
At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenement housed a bicycles dealer, Erich Krahn, (company "Patria").
In the 1920s a patisserie (Polish: Piekarnia) had been run in the building by Emil Kobielski.
Features
The building has a richly decorated facade with 2 small side gables, in which stands a gargoyle on a background of ostrich feathers. The architect created a functional complex of buildings centered around a rectangular courtyard enclosed at the back. A hallway allows to get the residential house located at the back of the garden.
The front building follows the Historicism style with references to Neo-Baroque and Rococo. In the same area, Józef Święcicki also realized other edifices:
The building has been put on the Pomeranian heritage list (N°A/1126/1-4), on 5 June 1993.