Carl Bradtke Tenement in Bydgoszcz

Carl Bradtke tenement
Polish: Kamienica Carla Bradtke w Bydgoszczy
View from Gdanska Street
General information
Type	Tenement
Architectural style	German Historicism, rokoko elements
Classification	N°A/1126/1-4, June 5, 1993[1]
Location	Poland
Address	93 Gdanska Street
Town or city	Bydgoszcz
Country	Poland
Coordinates	53°7′58″N 18°0′37″E / 53.13278°N 18.01028°E / 53.13278; 18.01028
Construction started	1895
Completed	1896
Client	Carl Bradtke
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect	Józef Święcicki

The Carl Bradtke Tenement is a historical habitation building located at 93 Gdańska Street, in Bydgoszcz, Poland It is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage list.

Location[]

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Świętojańska street and Chocimska street.

It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:

• Villa Carl Grosse at N°84;
• Otto Riedl Tenement at N° 85;
• Villa Hugo Hecht at N°88-90;
• Tenement at 91 Gdanska street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at N°92-94.

History[]

The house was built in 1895-1896, on a design by architect for a master stonecutter Carl Bradtke. Carl Bradtke worked also with Fritz Weidner for the erection of a nearby building at N°91.

The house, from the beginning, had been thought as a rental building as well as a trading one with two wings merging at the rear. The initials of the first owner ("CB") appear in a cartouche of an upper pediment.

The initial address of the house was 53 Danzigerstrasse.^[2]

At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenement housed a bicycles dealer, company Patria, run by Erich Krahn, .^[3]

In the 1920s a patisserie (Polish: Piekarnia) owned by Emil Kobielski had been operating in the building.^[4]

Features[]

The building has a richly decorated facade with two small side gables, in which stands a gargoyle on a background of ostrich feathers. The architect created a functional complex of buildings centered around a rectangular courtyard enclosed at the back. A hallway allows to get the residential house located at the back of the garden.

The front building follows the Historicism style with references to Neo-Baroque and Rococo.^[5] In the same area, Józef Święcicki also realized other edifices:

• Hotel "Pod Orlem" at 14 Gdańska street;
• Oskar Ewald Tenement at 30 Gdańska street;
• Józef Święcicki tenement at 63 Gdańska street;
• Tenement at 86 Gdańska street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at Gdańska street N°92-94;
• Tenement at 1 Plac Wolności.

The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List N°601318 Reg.A/1126/1-4, on June 5, 1993.^[6]

Gallery[]

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  Frontage onto Gdanska Street

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  Balcony and gable

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  Cartouche with Carl Bradtke initials

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  Detail of 1st floor balcony

See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 93 Gdańska Street in Bydgoszcz.

• Bydgoszcz
• Gdanska Street in Bydgoszcz
• Józef Święcicki
• Fritz Weidner

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny (in Polish). Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.