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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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Fritz Weidner Fritz Weidner (1863–1950) was an important designer and builder in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland). A vast majority of his works is associated with the city. He is one among many architects and builders who gave a characteristic shape to the town ...

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Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street at Nr.34, between

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and Słowackiego streets.

History

The house was built in 1906 for a master painter, Walther Minge on the site of an earlier building. The address at that time was "Danzigerstrasse 151/152". In the house previously standing on the premises lived from 1893 to 1895

Anton Hoffmann Anton Hoffmann was an important designer and builder in Prussian-time Bydgoszcz during the entire second half of the 19th century. He witnessed the transformation of Bydgoszcz, creating numerous residential buildings throughout the city. His activ ...

, a Bydgoszcz architect, stepfather of the famous local builder Józef Święcicki. Designer

was a German builder who came to Bydgoszcz at the end of the 19th century and had a frantic building activity in the city between 1896 and 1914. He lived in this tenement he built from 1912 onwards. In this building has been located the first movie theater in Bydgoszcz, opened on October 10, 1908, by a 30-year-old Pole, Waclaw Szkaradkiewicz. In the same area, Fritz Weidner built houses at the following addresses: * Mix Ernst tenement and movie theatre at 10 Gdańska Street (1905); * Thomas Frankowski Tenement at 28 Gdańska Street (1897); * George Sikorski Tenement at 31 Gdańska Street (1906); * Max Rosental Tenement at 42 Gdańska Street (1905); * Ernst Bartsch tenement at 79 Gdańska Street (1898); * Tenement at 3 Plac Wolności (1903). He also took part in the design of: * first reinforced concrete building in Bydgoszcz, designed by Berlin architect Otto Walther at 15 Gdańska street; * Department Store Brandt (now Bank PKO SA) at 4 Theatre square. Before

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, the building housed the seat of ''Windschild and Langelott'', a construction company which re-built in 1912-1913 the Queen Jadwiga bridge, allowing the Królowej Jadwigi Street to cross 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. During

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, the address was ''152 Ulica Gdańska'': a car dealership company ''Zagorski & Ska'' was housed there.

Architecture

The building presents the form of German

Historicism Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying their history, that is, by studying the process by which they came about. The term is widely u ...

, characteristic for projects Fritz Weidner. This style also became popular as "Landhaus Stil", and quickly appeared in the streets of Bydgoszcz. The first implementation of this architecture was realized in 1906 with the present building. The edifice has an asymmetrical façade, with vertical

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s and tall, triangular

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s with

wattle and daub Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung a ...

structure. The architectural style of the building refers to the early

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

, where the

stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...

decoration is reduced to a minimum, while the most important measure is the artistic arrangement of architectural elements that make up the facade.

Gallery

File:Bdg Gdanska34 1 7-2015.jpg, Detail of the

File:Gdanska 34 door.JPG, Gate detail

References

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