Tenement at 71 Gdańska street is a habitation building located on Gdańska Street, in

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Location

The building stands on the western side of Gdańska Street, between Cieszkowskiego and Świętojańska streets. It is located close to remarkable tenements in the same street: * Alfred Schleusener Tenement at 62; * Józef Święcicki tenement at 63; * Eduard Schulz Tenement at 66/68.

History

The house was built in 1906-1907, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdańska Street: * August Mentzel Tenement at 5; * Tenement at 67 Gdańska street; * Eduard Schulz Tenement at 66/68. After the construction, a surgeon, Dr Dettmer had his clinic in the back, as well as his private house. At

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's time, the address was ''42 DanzigerStrasse''. In 1924, the Office of the City bought the building and organized here the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the Municipal Hospital, which was surrounded by a garden. In 1934, the headquarters of the Polish Army Corps District Nr. VIII was located there. The tenement has been the seat, since 1938–1939, of the Municipal Conservatoire, and between 1945 and 1958 it housed the school headquarters. Currently, the building in the backyard (where stood the clinic) is owned by the Music Schools of Bydgoszcz. A concert hall, named ''

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Aula (concert hall)'' is located here.

Architecture

The building presents architectural forms of

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and

Eclecticism Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories i ...

. The facade is adorned with stylish

ornaments An ornament is something used for decoration. Ornament may also refer to: Decoration *Ornament (art), any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts *Ornamental turning *Biological ornament, a characteristic of animals tha ...

, such as

Auricular style The auricular style or lobate style (Dutch: ''kwabstijl'', German: ''Ohrmuschelstil'') is a style of ornamental decoration, mainly found in Northern Europe in the first half of the 17th century, bridging Northern Mannerism and the Baroque. The st ...

details, characteristic of

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and

Rococo Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

periods. The massive facade is flanked by two piles of

balconies A balcony (from , "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. They are commonly found on multi-level houses, apartme ...

with

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balustrade. The first floor is decorated with bas-

relief Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...

s and

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s, whereas the third level is enriched with

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and upper

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s. The curved

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, enriched with floral cartouches, caps the whole elevation.

Gallery

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Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

friezes and gargoyles

References

External links

Bydgoszcz Music schools

Bibliography

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