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Tenement A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, i ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

, url = , references = Thomas Frankowski Tenement is a house located in Bydgoszcz, at 28 Gdańska Street.

Location

The tenement stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street, near the intersection with Krasinski street.

History

On the site of the tenement was an earlier building, dating from approximately 1875. Actual house was commissioned by landlord Thomas Frankowski, a rentier. It has been built in 1897-1898 by the architect

. At the time, the address was ''156 Danzigerstrasse, Bromberg''. Fritz Weidner was a German builder who came to Bydgoszcz at the end of the 19th century. He conducted frantic building activity in the city between 1896 and 1914. From 1912, he lived in the house he built for himself at 34 Gdańska Street In the same area, Fritz Weidner built houses at the following addresses: * Ernst Mix tenement and movie theatre at 10 Gdańska Street (1905); * George Sikorski Tenement at 31 Gdańska Street (1906); * Max Rosental Tenement at 42 Gdańska Street (1905); * Ernst Bartsch tenement at 79 Gdańska Street (1898); * House at 3 Freedom Square (1903). From 1909, the building housed the headquarters of the Bydgoszcz branch of Józef Madejewski's Institute of Trading Science created in 1892: the organization led educational courses related to geography, trade, modern communications, shorthand and typing. During interwar period, the edifice housed Seifert & Forster's workshop, specialized in repairing cars and bicycles.

Architecture

The tenement presents forms of German

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, in a transitional phase between the

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and

secession Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance. Some of the most famous and significant secessions have been: the former Soviet republics le ...

style. The whole facade is purposefully designed on asymmetry, which is a means of architectural expression, with stucco decoration for decorative arrangement on various elements: windows, arcade-

loggia In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...

bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. Types Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they are curved or angular, or ...

balcony A balcony (from it, balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor. Types The traditional Maltese balcony ...

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

s and Peak ornaments. Inside, original staircase, doors and decorative stained glasses are still preserved. The building has been put on the

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Heritage List, Nr.748678 Reg.A/1582, on February 16, 2011.

Gallery

File:Dantziger 156 1910.jpg, Ad for Joseph Madejewski's Institute, 1910 File:Bydgoszcz-dom na ul.Gdańskiej 28-loggie.JPG,

Loggia In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...

File:Bydgoszcz, kamienica, 1897-1898 bay window.jpg, Bay windows File:Gdanska 28 roof 2.jpg, Detail of roof and

Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

References

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