Eduard Schulz Tenement in Bydgoszcz

Eduard Schulz Tenement
Polish: Kamienica Eduarda Schulza w Bydgoszczy

Tenement from Gdanska Street

Tenement from Gdanska Street
General information
Type Tenement
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Location Gdanska Street 66-68, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Coordinates 53°7′54″N 18°0′34″E / 53.13167°N 18.00944°E / 53.13167; 18.00944
Groundbreaking 1904
Completed 1905
Client Eduard Schulz
Technical details
Floor count 4
Design and construction
Architect Rudolf Kern

Eduard Schulz Tenement is a habitation house located at Gdanska Street N°66-68, in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street, between Słowackiego street and Adam Mickiewicz Alley. It is close to Alfred Schleusener Tenement at N°62, another historical building in the same street.

History

19th century

In the middle of the 19th century, Karl Hildebrandt a judicial executor opened in the back yard a summer garden and a bowling. In 1882, in the garden at the back of the property was built a wooden summer theater, originally called Victoria, on the design of architects Józef Święcicki and Anton Hoffmann. Theater and concerts performances were held here.[1]

The new house was standing on a previous building where Eduard Schulz was living since 1893.[2] He had there his restaurant, Elysium.

Eduard Schulz's period

The tenement has been built in 1904-1905 for the restaurateur Eduard Schulz by the architect Rudolf Kern.

The building is stretched along N°66 and N°68 of Gdańska Street: both houses formed a complex network for house and business purposes. Its address was, in Bromberg's time, Danzigerstrasse 134.[2]

Eduard Schulz opened there a new restaurant, Zum Reichskanzler (To the Reich Chancelor).

1920s till today

In 1922, the Company Deutsches Haus became the new owner of the lot: it ran in the premises a restaurant, a German theater Deutsche Bühne and a hotel until 1945.

After World War II, a new restaurant, Slowianka, has been set up there. In the period 1947-1949 at the very place of the old wood theater was built the actual Polish Theatre by architect Alfons Licznerski.

In the upper levels a disco club opened in November 1975.

Today, N°68 houses the District Chamber of Legal Advisers of Bydgoszcz.[3]

Architecture

Eduard Schulz tenement has got an Art Nouveau decorated facade decoration, significantly impoverished as a result of renovation and rehabilitation.[1]

Initial decoration of N°66 frontage have been revived by a refurbishment during summer 2016. Likewise, on the facade of N°68, one can still notice gargoyles and stylized floral motifs. Inside are still preserved a staircase with its original door, railings and stuccoes.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.
  2. 1 2 Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg mit Vorvorten für 1906 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1906.
  3. ↑

(in Polish) Site of Bydgoszcz Polish Theatre

Bibliography

Panorama on Eduard Schulz's building
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