Carl Bradtke Tenement

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 84;
• Otto Riedl Tenement at 85;
• Villa Hugo Hecht at 88/90;
• Tenement at 91 Gdanska street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at 92/94.

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

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 Nr.92/94;
• Tenement at 1 Plac Wolności.

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

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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

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• Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny (in Polish). Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)