Villa Carl Grosse in Bydgoszcz

Villa Carl Grosse in Bydgoszcz
Willa Carla Grosse w Bydgoszczy

Villa Carl Grosse from Gdanska street

View from Gdanska street
Location within Poland
General information
Type Villa
Architectural style German Historicism
Classification N°601312-Reg.A/1079/1-2, 13th December 1994[1]
Location Gdanska street 84, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Country Poland
Coordinates 53°7′59″N 18°0′40″E / 53.13306°N 18.01111°E / 53.13306; 18.01111
Construction started 1898
Completed 1899
Client Carl Grosse
Technical details
Floor count 4
Design and construction
Architect Karl Bergner
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The Villa Carl Grosse is an historical house in downtown Bydgoszcz.

Location

The building is somehow setback on the eastern side of Gdanska Street (N°84), at the intersection with Zamoyski street.

History

The villa was built in 1898-1899 by architect Karl Bergner, following an order from Carl Grosse.

Mr Grosse ran in Bydgoszcz a cork factory (German: Ostdeutsche Kork-Fabrik), with the company seat here (Danzigerstrasse 127).[2]

A subsequent owner - wood wholesaler Otto Schmidt - in the years 1918-1920 enriched the villa: it is the decor that is still preserved today.

The building has undergone many renovations with succeeding owners and users. For many years in the 1920s, rumor went that the villa belonged to actress Apolonia Chalupiec, aka Pola Negri, from which it had been purchased by industrialist Jan Kłossowski,called "cardboard king", who lived there with his family in the 1930s. In reality, Jan Kłossowski bought the villa from the Bank Ludowy[3] (German: Volksbank) in Bydgoszcz and Pola Negri's house was located at Zamoyski street 8.

Between 1962 and 1992 the building was the headquarters of the Civic Militia (MO), with a factory shop and a cafeteria.[4]

Architecture

The tenement is decorated in a style referring to German Historicism.[5] The villa is separated from the street by a garden. Its facade has an asymmetric block, adorned with decorative bays, avant-corpss, loggias and post-and-plank structures.

The interior is designed in art deco style, by Johanna H. Fricke. In addition to the stuccoes, worth noticing are stained glass, wooden reliefs (animal and plant motifs) and handrail stairwell. In the ballroom overlooking the garden is placed a fountain decorated with a sculpture of a woman washing her hair.

The building has been put on the Pomeranian heritage list (N°601312-Reg.A/1079/1-2) on the 13th December 1994.[1]

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See also

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 zabytek-kujawsko-pomorskie issued 28.02.2014
  2. ↑ Addressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1900 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen, p163
  3. ↑ Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy : na rok 1933
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A., [i inni]: Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny, Bydgoszcz 2003
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