Stanisław Rolbieski tenement in Bydgoszcz

Stanisław Rolbieski tenement
Kamienica Stanisława Rolbieskiego w Bydgoszczy

Tenement from Gdanska Street

Tenement from Gdanska Street
Location within Poland
General information
Type Tenement
Architectural style Eclecticism & French Neo-Renaissance
Location Gdanska Street 96, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Coordinates 53°8′03″N 18°0′43″E / 53.13417°N 18.01194°E / 53.13417; 18.01194
Groundbreaking 1891
Completed 1892
Client Hugo Hecht
Technical details
Floor count 3
Design and construction
Architect Józef Święcicki
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The Stanisław Rolbieski tenement is a habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°96, in Bydgoszcz.

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".[1]

It was the last part of a series of six close stylish buildings ordered by Hugo Hecht[2] in Gdanska Street and realized by Józef Święcicki.

In interwar period, the building belonged to the engineer Stanisław Rolbieski,[3] 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[4]

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.[5] 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:

Gallery

See also

External links

Bibliography

References

  1. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1895 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen
  2. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1889 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Materialien
  3. Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy : wydana w roku 1925, p255
  4. Chamot Jan. Tak rodził się „Kabel”. [w:] Kalendarz Bydgoski 1973
  5. Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A., [i inni]: Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny, Bydgoszcz 2003
Panorama at Gdanska street. The tenement is on the left.
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