Type Tenement Client Eduard Schulz Opened 1905 Architectural style Art Nouveau Architect Rudolf Kern | Completed 1905 Floor count 4 Floors 4 Groundbreaking 1904 | |
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Location Gdanska Street 66-68, Bydgoszcz, Poland Similar August Mentzel Tenement, Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz, Alexander Timm House, Theonia Reichhardt House in | ||
Eduard Schulz Tenement is a tenement located at Gdanska Street N°66-68, in Bydgoszcz.
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Location
The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street, between Słowacki street and Adam Mickiewicz Alley. It is close to Alfred Schleusener Tenement at N°62, another historical building in the same street of Bydgoszcz.
19th century
In the middle of the 19th century, Karl Hildebrandt a judicial executor opened in the back yard a summer garden and a bowling. In 1882, in the garden at the back of the property was built a wooden summer theater, originally called Victoria, on the design of architects Józef Święcicki and Anton Hoffmann. Theater and concerts performances were held here.
The new house was standing on a previous building where Eduard Schulz was living since 1893. He had there his restaurant, Elysium.
Eduard Schulz's period
The tenement has been built in 1904-1905 for the restaurateur Eduard Schulz by the architect Rudolf Kern.
The building is stretched along N°66 and N°68 of Gdańska Street: both houses formed a complex network for house and business purposes. Its address was, in Bromberg's time, "Danzigerstrasse 134". Eduard Schulz opened a new restaurant, Zum Reichskanzler (To the Reich Chancelor).
1920s till today
In 1922, the Company Deutsches Haus became the new owner of the lot: it ran in the premises a restaurant, a German theater Deutsche Bühne and a hotel until 1945.
After World War II, a new restaurant, Slowianka, has been set up there. In the period 1947-1949 at the very place of the old wood theater was built the actual Bydgoszcz Polish Theatre by architect Alfons Licznerski.
In the upper levels a disco club opened in November 1975.
Today, N°68 houses the District Chamber of Legal Advisers of Bydgoszcz.
Architecture
Eduard Schulz tenement has got an Art Nouveau decorated facade decoration, significantly impoverished as a result of renovation and rehabilitation.
Initial decoration of N°66 frontage have been revived by a refurbishment during summer 2016. Likewise, on the facade of Gdańska Street 68 building, one can still notice gargoyles and stylized floral motifs. Inside are still preserved a staircase with its original door, railings and stuccoes.