Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

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Brda river The Brda (; german: Brahe) is a river in northern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula. It has a total length of 245 km and a catchment area (all within Poland) of 4,665 km2.Bernardyńska Street in the west and runs between the river and Jagiellońska street.

History

The area originally belonged to a city farm called ''Grodztwa''. The land registry cites that the farm owner successively sold pieces of the estate. Like many of the streets of the downtown district, Świętego Floriana started between the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. The street bore the following names through time: * 19th century-1920, ''Alexander straße'' * 1920–1939, ''Ulica Świętego Floriana'' * 1939–1945, ''Frithjof straße'', alluding to Frithiof's Saga * Since 1945, ''Ulica Świętego Floriana''

Main edifices

Tenement at 3, corner with Bernardyńska Street 1910 Eclecticism Before its erection in the early 20th century, the site was a garden. Carl Hintz, a mailman, was the first registered landlord. The building was thoroughly restored in 2018. One will notice the entry doorway, flanked by two

column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. ...

s, three medallions depicting figures (among whom a king) and a seal. Corner facades are topped with ogee gables and eyelid

dormer A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space ...

s. Sw Floriana.jpg, View from Bernardyńska street Sw Floriana 3 door.jpg, Main door at Nr.3 Sw Floriana 3 roof.jpg, View of the gables Sw Floriana 3 medal1.jpg, Figure head

medallion A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be int ...

Sw Floriana 3 medal2.jpg, King head medallion Sw Floriana 3 medal3.jpg, Seal medallion Tenement at 5/7 Late 1930s Modern architecture Those two buildings are part of a series of similar constructions built in downtown

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

during that period. Other instances can be found at Gdańska Street, Zamoyskiego Street or 20 Stycznia 1920 Street. Sw Floriana 5 7.jpg, Facades view from the street Old Building of Bydgoszcz Rowing Association, corner with Bernardyńska Street Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Heritage list Nr.601291, Reg.A/1091 (January 18, 1994) 1914, by Theodore Patzwald Historicism The building was erected by the architect Theodore Patzwald for the German Rowing Club "Frithjof" established in 1894. The club joined from 1923 to 1945 the "Frithjof Rowing Club", a German rowing association. After World War II, the edifice housed the Bydgoszcz Rowing Association, or BTW ( pl, Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie), founded on March 16, 1920, under the name "Tryton Rowing Association" ( pl, Towarzystwo Wioślarzy Tryton Bydgoszcz). In 1996, the building was sold by municipal authorities to a company, ''Shanghai Olym-Poland'', which set up a hotel and a catering center for Chinese people traveling in Poland and around Europe. In 2010, the building became a hotel with a gastronomic restaurant ''Zatoka'' ("The Gulf"). Zatoka 1917.jpg, Building of German Rowing Club "Frithjof" 1917 Zatoka 1973.jpg, Building of Rowing association "BTW" 1973 Bdg BTW 1 10-2013.jpg, View from Bernardyński Bridge Zatoka (2).jpg, View from Brda river's opposite side Tenement at N9 1910 Early modernism The plot at then ''Alexanderstraße 5'' was first occupied by an insurance bank, ''Bersicherungsbank Teutonia'' till the start of the 20th century. In 1910, Mr Schlegel had this tenement built: however, he never inhabited it. The frontage still keeps its former shape with its large wall gable, the four balconies and some tiny motifs, bringing to mind a fading

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influence. Sw Floriana 9.jpg, Main facade

Tadeusz Browicz Tadeusz Browicz (15 September 1847 – 20 March 1928) was a Polish pathologist born in Lviv. He studied medicine in Kraków, earning his medical doctorate in 1873. Afterwards he remained at Kraków as an assistant to the pathologist Alfred B ...

Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Bydgoszcz, at 10/18 1898, 1911 by

Józef Święcicki Józef Święcicki (9 March 1859 – 3 November 1913) was a fecund designer and builder of Bydgoszcz, under Prussian rule. A vast majority of his eclectic-style works can still be found all around the city. Józef Swiecicki was part of architects ...

In 1885, the plot was purchased by priest Antoni Kielczynski, with the plan that the

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, based in Chełmno, would settle there. However, it was not before 1909 that the congregation officially took possession of the place. On May 4, 1898, with the participation of the parish priest of Bydgoszcz, Józef Choraszewski, city authorities, doctors and donors, a 12-bed hospital for children opened. The Bromberg address book from 1900 lists sisters with the following surnames living in the premises: Doliwa, Gralewska, Hermanska, Hoppe, Kapke, Schmidt. At that time, there was only a one-story building in the yard with several rooms containing beds for patients. Sisters even organised summer camps. In 1901, thanks to the help of the countess Potulicka, a separate branch for infectious children was organized in a separate building. In the years 1905–1906, about 200 children lived in the facility. In 1905, the recorded board of trustees comprised, among others,

Parson A parson is an ordained Christian person responsible for a small area, typically a parish. The term was formerly often used for some Anglican clergy and, more rarely, for ordained ministers in some other churches. It is no longer a formal term d ...

Ryszard Markwart and Dr. Stanisław Warminski. The latter, the uncle and tutor of

Emil Warmiński Emil Warmiński (15 March 1881 – 9 June 1909) was a Polish physician, social and national activist and founder of the ''Polish House'' in Bydgoszcz. Biography Youth Emil Warmiński was born on 15 March 1881 in a tenement at 6 Plac Poznań ...

, donated in 1906 all his savings to the hospital, allowing the construction of one of the ancient brick building. At that time, the hospital had 36 beds and was maintained only by donations from Poles and landowners, among whom countess Potulicka and entrepreneurs Bronisław Kentzer and

Antoni Weynerowski Antoni Weynerowski (12 June 1864 – 29 November 1939) was a Polish Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, founder in Bydgoszcz of the firm ''Leo'', renamed ''Kobra'', one of the largest shoe manufacture in Poland in the Second Polish Republic, interwa ...

. In 1914, a hospital for wounded German soldiers opened in a section of the building. After 1920, both children and adults were treated at the hospital. In 1940, the Sisters of Charity were expelled from the premises, taken over by German forces who again used it as a military hospital. In spring 1946, it became a Polish Garrison hospital which was transferred to Toruń in 1948; the buildings then returned to their civilian goal. Recently, the clinic has developed a specialized HIV/AIDS research department and has become a reference center for HIV infections. In 2011, thanks to Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship funds, a modern building has opened next to the ancient ones, which keep administration offices and some laboratories. On January 29, 2019, the hospital celebrated its 70th anniversary as a Center for Infectious Diseases. The Neo-Gothic project, designed by builder W. Pluciński from Chełmno, was also realized by

Józef Święcicki Józef Święcicki (9 March 1859 – 3 November 1913) was a fecund designer and builder of Bydgoszcz, under Prussian rule. A vast majority of his eclectic-style works can still be found all around the city. Józef Swiecicki was part of architects ...

. It opened on May 6, 1910. Wojewodzki Szpital Obserwacyjno-Zakazny im Tadeusza Browicza 1910s.jpg, Building ca 1910 Bydgoszcz Wojewódzki Szpital Obserwacyjno-Zakaźny im. Tadeusza Browicza (3).JPG, Main building from the street File:Sw Floriana szp chapel door.jpg, Detail of the main door File:Szpital obs-zakaźny Bydg 3.jpg, Ancient building from the

Brda river The Brda (; german: Brahe) is a river in northern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula. It has a total length of 245 km and a catchment area (all within Poland) of 4,665 km2. Eclecticism The original address was ''Alexanderstraße 8'', and the first recorded landlord was Julius Jacoby, a merchant dealing with construction materials. He kept ownership till the end of WWI. A sign bearing his name is still visible on the corner facade. Both facades display eclectic features, which were fashionable at the time: round or triangular pediments on openings, a

Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

and a decorated main door (although in need of restoration) with a transom light window. Sw Floriana 22.jpg, Main elevations from the street Sw Floriana 22 detail New1.jpg, Openings adornment motifs Sw Floriana 22 portal.jpg, Main entrance Sw Floriana 22 scripture.jpg, Details of the writing ''Julius Jacoby''

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Tadeusz Browicz Hospital
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