Type Tenement Client Hugo Hecht Opened 1892 Groundbreaking 1891 | Completed 1892 Floor count 3 Floors 3 Architect Józef Święcicki | |
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Location Gdanska Street 96, Bydgoszcz, Poland Architectural style Renaissance Revival architecture Similar Theonia Reichhardt House in, Hugo Hecht tenement, Villa Hugo Hecht in Bydgoszcz, Julius Grey house in Bydgoszcz, Alexander Timm House | ||
The Stanisław Rolbieski tenement is a habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°96, in Bydgoszcz.
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Location
The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Zamoyski street and Chodkiewicz street.
It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:
History
The house was built in 1891-1892, commissioned by Hugo Felix Franz Hecht, a timber merchant an dealer, according to the project of Józef Święcicki. At the time, the address was "Danzigerstrasse 120, Bromberg".
It was the last part of a series of six close stylish buildings ordered by Hugo Hecht in Gdanska Street and realized by Józef Święcicki.
In interwar period, the building belonged to the engineer Stanisław Rolbieski, manager of "Karbid Wielkopolski SA". He was an entrepreneur, activist, and town councilor of the city, founder of the factory "Kabel Polski Sp zoo" in Bydgoszcz
During the Nazi occupation the edifice housed the German Labour Front.
Features
The building has the homogeneous style of the other habitation houses commissioned by Hugo Hecht (N°88-90 & 92-94), with a facade decoration referring to the French Neo-Renaissance forms. The symmetry axis running between each buildings is still visible in the shape of a massive roof topped bay window.
In the same area, Józef Święcicki also realized other edifices: