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Rudolf Kern Tenement
Kamienica Rudolfa Kerna w Bydgoszczy
Tenement from Gdanska Street
Tenement from Gdanska Street
Location within Poland
General information
TypeTenement
Architectural styleArt Nouveau
ClassificationN°A/447/1, 20th November 1995[1]
LocationMickiewicz Alley 1, at the intersection with Gdanska Street, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Groundbreaking1903
Completed1904
ClientRudolf Kern
Technical details
Floor count5
Design and construction
Architect(s)Rudolf Kern

Rudolf Kern Tenement is a habitation building located at Mickiewicz Alley 1, in Bydgoszcz.

Location

The building stands on the western side of Gdanska street at the intersection with Mickiewicz Alley . It stands close to remarquable tenements in the same street:

History

The house was built in 1903-1904, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, a student of Joseph Święcicki who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdanska Street:[2]

Rudolf Kern has originally erected the tenement for his own use, private and business: he has lived there until 1922.

On the lot, before the building, was a pub or tavern (

"wirtschaft")[3]. This made the area prone to leisure, as Rudolf Kern also designed the Eduard Schulz Tenement on the other side of the intersection (Gdanska st.68/66), where a theatre and a restaurant existed since the end of the XIXth century.

Features

The building has a decorative Art Nouveau facade, with a large and impressive building consisting of four main floors and one hidden in the upper roof. It is characterized by an asymmetric arrangement of loggia and bays, typical decorative elements including leaf and tendril motifs, intertwined organic forms, mostly curvaceous in shape[4].

Notable Elements:

- low-relief Half adorned Portal;

- large threatening masks on the facade;

- many interior design elements (staircase, stained glass, woodwork.

The building has been put on the Pomeranian heritage list (N°A/447/1) on the 20th November 1995[5].

See also

Bibliography

  • Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A., [i inni]: Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny, Bydgoszcz 2003

References

  1. ^ zabytek|kujawsko-pomorskie|issued=1.03.2014
  2. ^ Iwona Jastrzębska-Puzowska: Od miasteczka do metropolii. Rozwój architektoniczny i urbanistyczny Bydgoszczy w latach 1850-1920.
  3. ^ The manager was 'Emil Manthei'/Einwohner-, Adress- und Telefonbücher von Bromberg, 1900, p126
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ zabytek|kujawsko-pomorskie|issued=1.03.2014