Stanisław Rolbieski Tenement

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Zamoyskiego street and Chodkiewicz 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 Gdańska street.

The house was built in 1891-1892,[1] commissioned by Hugo Felix Franz Hecht, a timber merchant an dealer, and realized by Józef Święcicki. At the time, the address was 120 Danziger Straße.[2]

It was the last part of a series of six close stylish buildings ordered by Hugo Hecht[3] in Gdańska Street and realized by Józef Święcicki, together with buildings located at 88/90 and 92/94.

During interwar period, the building belonged to the engineer Stanisław Rolbieski,[4] 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[5]

During the Nazi occupation the edifice housed the German Labour Front.

The building has the homogeneous style of the other habitation houses commissioned by Hugo Hecht (Nr.88/90 & 92/94), with a facade decoration referring to the French Neo-Renaissance forms.[6] 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:

• 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;
• Villa Hugo Hecht at 88-90 Gdańska street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at 92-94 Gdańska street;
• Tenement at 1 Plac Wolności.

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  Frontage seen from Gdańska street
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  Detail of the facade frieze
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  Window decoration details
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  Detail of the upper facade

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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)

Panorama at Gdańska street. The tenement is on the left.