Carl Bradtke Tenement in Bydgoszcz

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

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

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 Gdanska street 91;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at N°92-94.

History

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 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 Danzigerstrasse 53.[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 Gdańska street 14;
• Oskar Ewald Tenement at Gdańska street 30;
• Józef Święcicki tenement at Gdańska street 63;
• Tenement at Gdańska street 86;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at Gdańska street N°92-94;
• Tenement at Plac Wolności 1.

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
• 
  Balcony and gable
• 
  Cartouche with Carl Bradtke initials
• 
  Detail of 1st floor balcony

See also

• Bydgoszcz
• Gdanska Street in Bydgoszcz
• Józef Święcicki

References

1. kujawsko-pomorskie list issued28.02.2014
2. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1896 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1896.
3. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1900 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1900.
4. Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy : wydana w roku 1926. Bydgoszcz. 1926.
5. Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.
6. kujawsko-pomorskie list issued28.02.2014

Bibliography

• (in Polish) Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. - Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny, Bydgoszcz 2003