Babia Wieś Street, Bydgoszcz

This house was used from 1973 to 2016[10] for the activities of the Underwater Archeology Club Tryton (Polish: Klub Archeologii Podwodnej "Tryton").[11]

The club gathered divers and archaeologists interested in underwater archaeological research. It cooperated with Andrzej Kola and Gerard Wilke from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Professor Zbigniew Bukowski from the Institute of the History of Material Culture (Polish: Instytut Historii Kultury Materialne) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Olga Romanowska-Grabowska, a researcher from the office of the Provincial Conservator of Monuments (Polish: Biuro Konserwatora Zabytków).

The peak of his activity took place in the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. The club uncovered, among other things:[12]

• a dugout canoe in the lake of Wielkie Gacno;
• a 4-meter-long boat from Lake Ostrowite near Chojnice;
• wooden structures from an early medieval settlement in Lake Łąkorek;
• a wooden palisade, the remains of a wooden bridge as well as Roman stone blocks in a lake near Mogilno;
• a medieval keep
• remains of an early medieval stronghold and Lusatian culture artefacts in Lake Wolskie;
• limestone kilns and wooden platforms in the Gąsawka River.

The club also participated in the research of the Solena wreck conducted by the Central Maritime Museum in Gdańsk.[13] At the end of the 1980s, club divings ceased, and in the 1990s and the 2000s, the club's activity was almost non-existent. Despite some interest in reinvigorating the association in 2010, it dissolved in 2016.[11]

Underwater archaeology club "Tryton"

The boathouses along the bank of the Brda River were constructed from 1933 to 1937.[14] One building is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list.[15] In early 1910, several rowing clubs were established in what was then Bromberg, along the right bank of the Brda River. Amongst them, the following ones are still active:

• Bydgoszcz Rowing Club (Polish: Bydgoski Klub Wioślarek (BKW)) was founded on January 25, 1926. It is a women-only rowing club. Until 1920, the club used a riverside dwelling belonging to the State Agricultural School at 6/8 Bernardyńska Street. In 1934, the club received the current plot along the river on a perpetual lease, erecting a rowing marina in 1936. As of 2011, it is still in operation.[16]
• Uczniowski Klub Sportowy (UKS) Kopernik Bydgoszcz (English: Student Sports Club) is a canoeing club established in 1994. It uses the facilities at 5 Babia Wieś Street. The initial patronage of the club was carried out by the "Łączność" multi-sports club, which operated from 1933 to 2006.

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  View of one boathouse c. 1936
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  Boathouse at No.3
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  Boathouse of the UKS Kopernik
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  Boathouse of the Bydgoszcz Rowing Club registered on the heritage list

The tenement was constructed in 1931.[17] Its initial address was "22 Schifferstraße".

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  Main elevation
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  Detail of the entrance door

This housing estate was constructed from 1925 to 1927 after a decision of the municipal authorities.[14][18] It was designed by Bogdan Raczkowski.[19] At the time, the numbering of the tenement ran from 3a to 3d. Each building was designed with a rectangular strip of land for the cultivation of vegetables and flowers in the backyard. Loggias are also present on both sides of the arched entrances,[20] with the façades displaying ogee wall gables. A renovation was launched by the city in 2020 and will last several years.[21]

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  The building as seen from the left river side, c. 1930 – c. 1939
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  The arched entrance, still bearing the old numbering
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  Renovated elevation
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  Detail of the renovated façade

This tenement was constructed in the 1890s.[14] Its initial address was "6 Toruńska", previously "6 Thornerstraße". The first registered landlord of the building was Carl Bennewitz, a wheel craftsman producing wagons.[22] The tenement has an elevation onto 15 Toruńska Street and the courtyard has an elevation onto Babia Wieś Street.

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  View of the courtyard from the Babia Wieś street

This tenement was constructed at the end of the 19th century.[14] Its initial address was "19 Schifferstraße". Jakob Michalski, a grocery merchant, was the first owner.[22] The faded façade still offers some details of eclectic architecture: bossage, brick pediments, cartouches and top corbel tables.

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  Main frontage onto Babia Wieś street

In 2022, a new tenement was unveiled at a plot, which had been occupied since the mid-1850s.[23][24] The estate's design was done by the firm Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa „Nad Brdą”.

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  New estate ensemble at Nr.12

Constructed towards the end of 19th century, the house at 14 was registered at its erection at "16/17 Schifferstraβe". It was originally the property of Eleonore and Wilhlem Bublitz.[25] The latter was a railway worker.[22][14] The backyard of the house harbors a commercial workshop.

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  Main facade on the street

Constructed in 2022,[26] the edifice is an extension of the Sue Ryder's Psychoneurology Center for Old Age ("Polish: Centrum Psychoneurologii Wieku Podeszłego") at 29 Toruńska. The recently added facility at 20 Babia Wieś street is a day care center ("Polish: Dzienny Dom Opieki Medycznej").[26]

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  View of the Sue Ryder Center at 29 Toruńska street

From the late 19th century to the 1920s, the plot was a garden that extended from Toruńska to Babia Wieś.[25] In 1930, the plot was acquired by Jan Tykwiński, who had the tenement constructed that year.[17][14]

Although badly damaged, the house mirrors other modernist edifices from the similar period in Bydgoszcz, like in Asnyka or in Chodkiewicza.[27]

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  View from the street

Dated from 1897, as mentioned on the facade pediment, the villa was owned by a butcher, Richard Fröhlich.[28] At the time, its address was 12 Thörnerstraße. Renovated in 2021, the villa displays many architectural motifs, in particular a window above the entrance adorned with columns bearing lion heads, a triangular gable, and two urns standing at each extremity of the elevation.

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  View from the street
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  The villa after renovation