Type Tenement Floor count 5 Floors 5 Client Rudolf Kern Architect Rudolf Kern | Completed 1904 Opened 1904 Architectural style Art Nouveau Groundbreaking 1903 | |
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Classification N°601377-Reg.A/1086, 20th November 1995 Location Mickiewicz Alley 1, at the intersection with Gdanska Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland Similar Eduard Schulz Tenemen, Józef Święcicki tenement, Gęsinowy Szlak Kulinarny, Brda, Esperanto Bridge | ||
Rudolf Kern Tenement is a habitation building located at Mickiewicz Alley 1, in Bydgoszcz.
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Location
The building stands on the eastern side of Gdanska Street at the intersection with Mickiewicz Alley. It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
History
The house was built in 1903–1904, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, a student of Józef Święcicki who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdańska Street:
Rudolf Kern has originally erected the tenement for his own use, private and business: he has lived there until 1922.
On the lot, before the building, was a pub or tavern (German: wirtschaft). This made the area prone to leisure, as Rudolf Kern also designed the Eduard Schulz Tenement on the other side of the intersection (Gdanska st.68/66), where a theatre and a restaurant existed since the end of the 19th century.
Features
The building has a decorative Art Nouveau facade, with a large and impressive building consisting of four main floors and one hidden in the upper roof. In a way its size balances the symmetry with the opposite building.
It is characterized by an asymmetric arrangement of loggia and bays, typical decorative elements including leaf and tendril motifs, intertwined organic forms, mostly curvaceous in shape.
Notable Elements:
- low-relief adorned gate;
- large threatening masks on the facade;
- many interior design original elements such as staircase, stained glass, woodwork.
The building has been put on the Pomeranian heritage list (N°601377-Reg.A/1086, 20 November 1995.