Dworcowa Street
{{Short description|Street in Bydgoszcz, Poland}}
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Dworcowa Street is one of the main streets of Bydgoszcz, in Downtown district ({{langx|pl|Śródmieście}}). Many of its buildings
are registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.
Across the street, between Warmia and Marcinkowskiego street runs the 18°E longitude Meridian, so-called Bydgoszcz Meridian.{{cite book |last=Gąsiorowski |first=Paweł Bogdan |date=2006 |title=Bydgoski południk. Kalendarz Bydgoski |location=Bromberg |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.visitbydgoszcz.pl/en/explore/what-to-do/2546-18th-meridian |title=Find the 18th Meridian East |date=2014 |website=visitbydgoszcz.pl |publisher=Bydgoskie Centrum Informacji |access-date=13 September 2018}}
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Location
The street is located in the western part of Downtown Bydgoszcz. It runs from the intersection with Gdanska Street to the intersection with Sigismund Augustus Street, where is the main train station, {{lang|pl|Bydgoszcz Główna}}. Hence its name: 'Train station' in Polish is {{lang|pl|Dworzec}}.
History
Until 1851, the path was a dirty road leading from Bydgoszcz to Koronowo. The development of the street is associated with the building of Bydgoszcz Main Railway Station in 1851, which led to assimilating the close settlement of Bocianowo ({{langx|de|Brenkenhoff}}) into the city precinct.{{cite book |last=Derenda |first=Jerzy |date=2006 |title=Piękna stara Bydgoszcz. Tom I z serii: Bydgoszcz miasto na Kujawach |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy |page=281 |isbn=978-83-916178-0-9}}
On an 1861 map of the area, the vicinity of the railway station shows dispersed housings: it is only in the early 20th century that compact constructions make their appearance along the street. Some specific quarters near Gdanska street and close to the Main station have shown earlier activity, with the development of hotel buildings:{{cite book |last=Bręczewska-Kulesza |first=Daria |date=2002 |title=Rozwój budownictwa hotelowego w Bydgoszczy w 2 połowie XIX i na początku XX wieku. Materiały do dziejów kultury i sztuki Bydgoszczy i regionu. zeszyt 7 |language=pl |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Pracownia Dokumentacji i Popularyzacji Zabytków Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Kultury w Bydgoszczy}}
- Hotel "Pod Orlem" (1893), Hotel Pawlikowski (1898) in Gdanska Street;
- Hotel du Nord (1875), Heises's Hotel (1884), Schliep's Hotel (1889) near the Main Station.
At the end of the 19th century, Dworcowa street had an industrial and commercial character. In its surroundings flourished trade houses, craft workshops and restaurants or bars. The industrial buildings and warehouses occupied the area between the street and the Brda river, while along the street were located flats and shops. The largest companies at then Bahnhofstraße were:
File:Bdg Dworcowa pocz 9 07-2013.jpg
- {{lang|pl|Fabryka Sygnałów Kolejowych}} ('Railway Signals Factory');
- J. G. Neumann Brick Factory ({{langx|de|Ziegelfabrik}});{{cite book |title= Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1888 : nach amtlichen Quellen|location=Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |pages=34,132 }}
- Printhouse Ortis (established by Hermann and Emil Dittmann); they published the {{lang|de|Deutsche Rundschau}}, and after World War II all the local newspapers.{{cite book |last=Lakeberg |first=Beata |date=2010 |title=Die deutsche Minderheitenpresse in Polen 1918-1939 und ihr Polen- und Judenbild |publisher=Peter Lang GmbH |page=320 |isbn=978-3631600481}}
Between 1890 and 1914, many houses along the street have been transformed into 3 to 4 storey buildings, displaying ornated facades (e.g. building at Nr. 55, decorated with a head of Hermes), turning the venue into one of the most representative in the city.
{{cite book |last=Jastrzębska-Puzowska |first=Iwona |date=2005 |title=Od miasteczka do metropolii. Rozwój architektoniczny i urbanistyczny Bydgoszczy w latach 1850-1920 |location=Toruń |publisher=MADO |isbn=978-83-89886-38-5}} In the final section of the street near the Main Railway Station, there used to stand five hotels, furnished as tenements.
Street trams have been operated since 1888, first horse powered, then electrical ones in 1896. The line (Red) ran along the entire length of the street from the station to Gdańska Street.
In 1990, tram traffic has been suspended for technical reasons. Since then a partial restoration of the line has been performed after the revitalization of the street.{{cite web |url=http://www.pomorska.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091026/BYDGOSZCZ01/856987686 |title=Tramwaje ożywią Dworcową |last=bog |date=26 October 2009 |website=pomorska.pl |publisher=gazeta pomorska |access-date=13 September 2018}}
Through history, this street had the following names:{{cite book |last=Czachorowski |first=Antoni |date=1997 |title=Atlas historyczny miast polskich, Tom II Kujawy. Zeszyt I |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Toruń }}
- 1852–1920: {{lang|de|Bahnhofstraße}} ('Main Station Street' in German);
- 1920–1939: {{lang|pl|Ulica Dworcowa}};
- 1939–1945: {{lang|de|Albert-Forsterstrasse}} (named after nazi leader Albert Forster);
- From 1945: {{lang|pl|Ulica Dworcowa}}.
Characteristics
File:Bdg Dworcowa srod 11 07-2013.jpg street]]
Dworcowa Street is 1242 m long and is almost entirely built with stylish houses. It is considered{{by whom|date=November 2021}} as one of the most important thoroghfares, historically and functionally, in downtown Bydgoszcz. Its architectural landscape is quite diverse, with houses of different scale and style coexisting together.
For the most part, street facades display architectural features fashionable in the years 1860–1914:{{cite book |last=Bręczewska-Kulesza|first=Daria |title=Przegląd stylów występujących w bydgoskiej architekturze drugiej połowy XIX i początku XX stulecia |location=Bydgoszcz }}
The oldest buildings were built in Neoclassical style, usually with simple, symmetrical facades and modest decorations. During the last quarter of the 19th century, elements of Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic and Neo-Baroque start to appear on houses. Most impressive buildings have been erected between 1900 and 1915: it was the emergence of breaking architectural styles, such as Historicism, Secession and early Modern architecture.
The Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters has been erected in the late 1880s, and was at the time the most magnificent public property in the entire city.
Dworcowa street has been the playground of many local and Berlin's architects. However, past major bydgoszcz designers, Joseph Święcicki and Fritz Weidner who built 29 edifices in Gdanska Street, only designed four buildings in Dworcowa.
Most noticeable tenements are located on the southern side of the street: three buildings have been registered on the Heritage List since 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.kobidz.pl/app/site.php5/article/1469/3159.html |title=Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych |language=Polish |trans-title=Register of immovable monuments |orig-date=21 January 2008 |date=4 November 2009 |publisher=National Center for Research and Documentation of Monuments |via=KOBiDZ}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kobidz.pl/app/site.php5/Show/1.html |title=New issue of "Monument Protection, 3/2008 |publisher=National Center for Research and Documentation of Monuments |via=KOBiDZ}}
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Most prominent buildings include:
- Former Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters;
- State Archives Building at 65;
- Tax House at Warminskiego 18;
- HotelsBręczewska-Kulesza Daria: Rozwój budownictwa hotelowego w Bydgoszczy w 2. połowie XIX i na początku XX wieku, [w:] Materiały do dziejów kultury i sztuki Bydgoszczy i regionu. Zeszyt 7, Bydgoszcz 2002
- Former "Asystenta at 79;
- Centralny at 85;
- Hotel Brda (built in 1968-1972).
Revitalisation
Dworcowa Street being one of the most important streets in downtown Bydgoszcz, it has been identified to be the target of a vast revitalisation plan.
In 2009, in the Local Plan for the Revitalization of Bydgoszcz has been included the project Revitalisation of Dworcowa street. Costs amount to 6.4 million PLN, supported by a 4.2 million PLN EU funding under the 2007-2013 Regional Operational Programme for Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.{{cite book |title=Lokalny Program Rewitalizacji dla miasta Bydgoszczy na lata 2007-2015 |url=https://www.bydgoszcz.pl/rozwoj/rewitalizacja/lokalny-program-rewitalizacji-dla-miasta-bydgoszczy-na-lata-2007-2015-lpr-b/ |publisher=załącznik 4 |pages=19, 20 }}
The project encompassed:
- the modernization of Dworcowa street with a pedestrian pavement;
- the addition of green areas;
- the landscaping on the section between Gdanska Street and Matejki street.
In addition, the section leading from Matejki street to Main Railway Station has seen the restoration of tram circulation and the refurbishment of a historic building by Fritz Weidner in the immediate vicinity, converted to a Municipal Cultural Center.{{cite web |url=http://www.mck-bydgoszcz.pl/ |title=Home |website=mck-bydgoszcz.pl}}
Means of transportation
Since 2012, tram lines Nr.5 and 8 run on the section from Matejki street to Sigismund Augustus street, using a special bridge built for the occasion.{{cite web |url=http://www.bydgoszcz.pl/miasto/aktualnosci/aktualnosci-2012-pazdziernik-grudzien/Po_22_latach_tramwajem_do_dworca_.aspx |title=Po 22 latach tramwajem do dworca |date=2012 |website=bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=Miasto Bydgoszcz |access-date=13 September 2018}}
In addition, bus lines (54, 67, 75, 71, 79, 80, 83, 84, 31N, 33N) run on the section between the train station and Królowej Jadwigi street.
Main edifices
=Department store "Jedynak", crossing with 15 [[Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz|Gdańska Street]]=
{{main|Jedynak}}
Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601296-reg.87/A, December 10, 1971{{cite book |last= |first= |date=30 September 2020 |title=Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych – województwo kujawsko-pomorskie |url=https://www.nid.pl/pl/Informacje_ogolne/Zabytki_w_Polsce/rejestr-zabytkow/zestawienia-zabytkow-nieruchomych/stan%20na%2030.09.2020/KUJ-rej.pdf |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa |page= |isbn=}}
1910–1911, by Otto Walter
One of the first Department Store built in then Bromberg, it pioneered the use of reinforced concrete in a modern design.
File:Bydgoszcz-gmach dawnego Domu Towarowego.JPG|Department Store "Jedynak"
File:Bdg Jedynak 2 5-2015.jpg|Allegories on the facade
=Tenement at 2 corner with 1 [[Pomorska Street in Bydgoszcz|Pomorska Street]]=
1884, by Karl Bergner
This corner house has been commissioned by Mr Jäfel, a lithograph.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1855 auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location=Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1885|pages=IV,4|chapter=straßen}} In 1908, a drugstore run by Dr Aurel Kratz opened there: it was also selling goods for cameras{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen|location=Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1908|pages=303, 340|chapter=straßen}} until World War I. Aurel Kratz then moved to Friedrichstraße.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen|location= Bromberg| publisher=Dittmann|date=1915 |pages=12,237,302,313,325|chapter=straßen}}
The building has a triangular footprint plot, a challenge for the designer. It displays a nice bay window on the corner facade. The first floor windows, around the bay-window are more adorned than others with flanking pilasters topped with corbels and a frieze of ornaments. Second floors windows are capped by triangular pediments and have also small corbels and pilasters. Third level openings are only flanked by lean pilasters and pediment topped. A line of designed corbels runs beneath the roof.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 2 róg Pomorskiej a 05-2013.jpg|Facade onto Pomorska Street
File:Dworcowa 2.jpg|View from Gdańska Street
=Tenement at 3=
1893–1894,{{cite book |last=Jasiakiewicz |first=Roman |date=24 April 2013 |title=Uchwala NR XLI/875/13|location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Miasta Bydgoszczy |pages=73–75}} by Carl Stampehl
Eduard Merres, an instrument craftsman for surgery, nursery and optics, was the first owner of the house, then located at Bahnhofstraße 2.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1894 |pages=146 |chapter=Alphabetisches berzeichnis}} In 1907, the new owner was Mr. Conitzer, a businessman member of the very family running at that time the neighbouring department store.
The facade has been restored in 2015, giving more sharpness to all the different details. It is almost a classical one, but for the asymmetry: on first level, one notices heavily adorned windows (triangle pediments, pilasters with consoles), the second floor is less decorated and topped by a dense Corbel table. The gate axis is stressed by a monumental balcony and a smaller one above. The entry door transom light is crowned by a delicately carved female figure.
File:Bdg Dworcowa3 5-2015.jpg|Main elevation
File:Dworcowa 3 detail.JPG|Detail of the transom
File:Bdg Dworcowa3 3 04-2014.jpg|Detail of balconies
=Tenement at 4=
1887,Gminna Ewidencja Zabytków Miasta Bydgoszczy. Program Opieki nad Zabytkami miasta Bydgoszczy na lata
2013-2016 by Józef Święcicki and Anton Hoffmann
Julius and Herß Krojanter,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1889 |pages=104 |chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} were the first owners of the house at Bahnhofstraße 97: they were cereals merchants
and had their counter in the building. In the 1920s, the tenement housed a kitchenware shop, "A. Hensel".
The facade lost all its original adornments during renovation. However, the row of square windows on the top witnesses the original Neoclassical features.
File:Dworcowa 4.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Adv Dworcowa 97 1925.jpg|Advertising for "A. Hensel" shop (1925)
=Tenement at 5=
Amelie Sieg, a rentier and widow of a mason, was the first owner of the tenement in the 1870s. From the 1900s (decade) until World War I, the new owner, Ernst Knitter, was a merchant selling kitchenware and ironmongery.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1917 |pages=143 |chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}}
The elevation has been renovated in 2015, underlying the delicacy of the ornamentation: the front pediment, the gate frame with its two facing figures, the pilasters and the corbel table.
File:Dworcowa 5.JPG|Main elevation
File:Dworcowa 5 detail.JPG|Detail of the facade
File:Bdg Dworcowa5 1 5-2015.jpg|View of the main pediment
=Tenement at 6=
A baker, Wilhelm ßiehl, was the first landlord of the house in 1869, which address was then Bahnhofstraße 96. He lived there until the start of World War I.
The facade displays Neoclassical elements: symmetry, smooth wall, ornamented windows for each floor, small openings at the top of the elevation, topped with a corbel table, and a small stone balcony.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 6 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 7=
Gabriel Czalla was the first owner of the house at Bahnhofstraße 4.
The symmetrical facade lost its initial ornaments during the 20th century. However, one can still appreciate the overall disposition, with the slight avant-corps underlining the axis of the entry gate, flanked by high pilasters continuing to the first floor.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 111 06-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa7 3 5-2015.jpg|Detail of the avant-corps
=Tenement at 10=
Initially registered at Bahnhofstraße 95, the first owner was a merchant, Gustav Wollenberg,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Mittler |date=1886|pages=V}} who lived at today's Gdańska Street 12 (Danzigerstraße 164).
The facade has been rebuilt in 1935,{{cite web |url=http://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/1,48722,20557223,tu-zaszla-zmiana-kamienica-przy-dworcowej-przed-i-po-remoncie.html |title=Tu zaszła zmiana. Kamienica przy Dworcowej przed i po remoncie |last=key |date=17 August 2016 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=15 September 2018}} the entire building refurbished in 2016. Nice motifs have been brought back to life, such as cartouches with mustached figures or ornaments on corbels and pediments.
File:Dworcowa 10 (4).jpg|Main elevation onto Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 10 window.jpg|Window decoration
File:Dworcowa 10 cartouche.jpg|Detail of a cartouche
File:Dworcowa 10 motifs.jpg|Ornament
=Otto Pfefferkorn tenement at 12=
1909, by Fritz Weidner{{cite web |url=http://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/1,48722,20191677,kamienice-przy-ul-dworcowej-wypieknialy-a-to-nie-koniec.html |title=Kamienice przy ul. Dworcowej wypiękniały. A to nie koniec |last=opr |first=woj |date=6 June 2016 | website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Afora SA| access-date=14 September 2018 }}
Otto Pfefferkorn owned a successful furniture factory in Bromberg,{{cite web|url =http://www.pomorska.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090409/ALBUMY01/161637452 |title =Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli S.A.-125 lat historii | date = 8 April 2009| website = Gazeta Pomorska| publisher = gazeta Pomorska| access-date =23 January 2016}} which still exists today.{{cite web|url =http://www.bydgoskiemeble.pl/o-firmie|title =Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli S.A.| date = 2016| website =Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli S.A.| publisher =Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli S.A.| access-date =23 February 2016}}
He had this tenement designed by Fritz Weidner, which comprised at the time almost 200 rooms.{{cite web |url=https://kpck.pl/architektura-bydgoskich-fabryk-na-winietach-papierow-firmowych-wydawnictwo/ |title=Architektura bydgoskich fabryk na winietach papierów firmowych |date=2020 |website=kpck.pl |publisher=Kujawsko-Pomorskie Centrum Kultury w Bydgoszczy |access-date=24 July 2020}} It was also used as one of its many selling points in the city (others were found at today's Gdańska Street, Theatre square, Podolska or Pestalozziego streets). He even opened branches in Warsaw or Katowice. In 1912, the building was awarded city most beautiful facade!{{cite web|url =http://www.visitbydgoszcz.pl/index.php/en/explore/visitor-itineraries/1433-city-centre|title =Around the city centre| date =2016| website =visitbydgoszcz.pl| publisher =Bydgoskie Centrum Informacji | access-date =23 January 2016}}
Most of the architectural details of the facade have unfortunately vanished. Be that as it may, one can make out the asymmetry of the elevation, characteristic of Fritz Weidner. He used bow windows unbalanced positions, balconies at different levels and with different shapes to reach his goals.
File:Dworcowa 12.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa12 07-2013.jpg|Facade before restoration
=Apro building at 13=
2011, by Danuta Jarosewski{{cite web|url =http://dworcowa13.pl/ |title=Dworcowa 13|date =2016 |website=dworcowa 13.pl |publisher=APRO Investment Sp.z.o.o.| access-date =23 January 2016}}
The building has been realized within the frame of the revitalization of Dworcowa street. In the early 20th century, the plot was the site of a successful printhouse owned by A. Dittmann.
File:Dworcowa 13 Dittmann 1906.jpg|Print house Dittmann at Nr.13 ca 1906
File:Bdg Dworcowa13 4 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 14=
The first owner of this house, then at Bahnhofstraße 93, was Ernst Schmidt, a merchant. He lived here until World War I,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1910 |pages=7,70,440,501,522–523 |chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} having opened in the building a factory of drive belts.{{cite book |last= |first=|date=2021|title=BYDGOSZCZ PRZEMYSŁOWA DAWNIEJ I DZIŚ. Przemysł bydgoski jako produkt kulturalny i turystyczny |trans-title=BYDGOSZCZ INDUSTRIAL BEFORE AND TODAY. Bydgoszcz industry as a cultural and tourist product |url=https://kpck.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/architektura-bydgoskich-fabryk-na-winietach-papierow-firmowych.pdf |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Wydawnictwa Uczelniane Uniwersytetu Technologiczno-Przyrodniczego |language=pl}} After 1900, it housed the seat of engineering firm ''Weidlich & Berthold".{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1900 |pages=11,168,216 |chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}}
Neo-Renaissance features of the building (arched windows, pediments, low roof), could almost be called Neo-baroque by the choice of volute shaped motifs for the wrought iron balconies, or the roof pediment.
File:Bdg Dworcowa14 2 07-2013.jpg|Facade onto Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa14 1 07-2013.jpg|Detail of the roof pediment
File:Facade dworcowa 14.JPG|Detail of window decoration
=Tenement at 15=
Registered at Bahnhofstraße 6, then 6a at its inception, the building was commissioned by F.M. Schoenfelder, who rented the rooms. In 1910, the edifice housed the Bromberg music and opera school ({{langx|de|Bromberger Hochschule für Musik und Opernschule}}), run by Carl Schöne who lived there.
The main elevation still awaits better days, however, one can notice characteristic elements of neoclassic architecture: symmetry, triangular pedimented windows, cartouches with rosettes and corbel table. In particular, one can appreciate the preserved entrance, with a wrought iron grillwork adorned with sunflowers and leaves, as well as the large wood double door topped with a transom light. The building has been entirely renovated at the beginning of 2019.
File:Dworcowa 15.jpg|Refurbished elevation, view from the street
File:Dworcowa 15 door.jpg|Entrance portal with grill
File:Dworcowa 15 details.jpg|Facade details
File:Dworcowa 15 17 Music school 1910 Banhof 6a.jpg|Advertising for Carl Schöne's music school in 1910
=Tenement at 16=
Ferdinand Th. Zorn, a wood manufacturer and merchant, at Bahnhofstraße 92 was the first owner of the tenement. He kept it until World War I.
The style and shape of the facade is clearly echoing the one at Nr.14. However, it displays clearly Neo-Renaissance characteristics. Motifs are neat, each floor has a specific window adornament, the slight bay window stresses the symmetry of the elevation. One can notice the minute ornamentation of this bay-window (niches, balustrade, volutes) as well as the corbel table at the top.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 16 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 17=
First owner of the building at Bahnhofstraße 6 was Wilhelm Schönfelder. In 1888, Hermann Löhnert moved here as landlord: he was the founder and director of a joint-stock company of a factory producing machines for foundries,{{cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/5I2DCCDTGA5QORHWHDDQQJ43DLLB4MXW|title = Kugelfallmühle von Hermann Löhnert, Bromberg |date =2016| website =Deutsche digitale bibliothek.de| publisher =Deutsche digitale bibliothek| access-date =25 January 2016}} established in 1868{{cite web |url=http://www.produkcja.makrum.pl/en/about_us|title=About Us |date=2016|website =makrum.pl|publisher =Makrum|access-date=25 January 2016}} in Bydgoszcz. The firm still exists today, under the name MAKRUM, located at 11/19 Leśna street.{{cite web|url=http://express.bydgoski.pl/210258,Kiedys-to-byla-fabryka-fabryk.html|title=Kiedyś to była fabryka fabryk |date =2013| website =express.bydgoski.pl| publisher =Express Bydgoski| access-date =25 January 2016}}
Although lacking maintenance, the facade still boasts architectural details. Pediments on first floor windows, but also bossages are present. The most interesting decoration is the adornment surrounding middle openings on both floors: pilasters and garland ornaments are topped on the upper floor by crown ornaments.
File:Dworcowa 17 (2).JPG|main elevation
File:Dworcowa 17.JPG|Windows decoration detail before renovation
File:Dworcowa 17 detail.jpg|Detail of the facade after refurbishing
File:Factory H Lohnert.jpg|Picture of Herman Löhnert Factory in the 1930s
=Tenement at 19 corner with [[Doktora Emila Warmińskiego street in Bydgoszcz|Warmińskiego street]]=
Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601287-Reg.A/968, November 12, 1992
1880, by Albert Rose{{cite web |url=http://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/7,48722,23872608,tak-pieknie-bedzie-wygladal-byly-hotel-przy-dworcowej-zdjecia.html |title=Tak pięknie będzie wyglądał były hotel przy Dworcowej |last=key |date=7 September 2018 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=10 June 2019}}
Friedrish Giese, a brewer at Bahnhofstraße 7a{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg| publisher=Louis Levis| date=1880|pages=11,41,54,125|chapter=Straßen}} was the first owner of the house. Otto Pfefferkorn, a successful entrepreneur in the furniture business, acquired it in 1887, before having his own house built at Nr.12. In 1910, the building became an hotel, Reichshof, run by Carl Müller.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1911|pages=545|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} In 1922, it changed to Goplana, run by Jan Gawron,{{cite book |last=Weber |first=Władysław |date=1922 |title=Adresy Miasta Bydgoszczy |trans-title=Bydgoszcz Address book |url= |language=pl |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Księgarnia Bydgoska |page=32,39,515}} then "Boston". From 1932 to 1939, it has been renamed "Gastronomia" with led by H. Katorski.{{cite book|title=Ksiazka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy |date=193|pages=16|chapter=Dzial Informacyjny}} It is now a habitation building, where the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bydgoszcz{{cite web|url=http://www.embassypages.com/missions/embassy16536/|title=Consulate of Germany in Bydgoszcz, Poland|publisher=EmbassyPages|date=2016|website=EmbassyPages.com|access-date=10 June 2019}} moved in 2019 -previously it was located at 49 Śniadeckich street.
The building renovated in 2019 a nice decoration on the first floor, with pediments topping windows and ornamented cartouche beneath, as well as a row of round openings below the roof. The main feature is the grand two-floor stretched bay window standing on streets corner.
File:Dworcowa 19 2.jpg|Elevation on Dworcowa street
File:Dworcowa 19 bw.jpg|Bay window
File:Dworcowa 19 German consul.jpg|Honorary German Consulate
File:Gate and door access.JPG|Gate and door recess
=Tenement at 22=
The Gottschalck family has owned Bahnhofstraße 89 building since 1876. In the 1900s (decade), Hermann Albrecht, a merchant became the owner: at that time he also possessed the tenement at Nr.20 and at 18 Warmińskiego Street. Since 1990 is located here one of the first pizzeria in Bydgoszcz (Pizzeria Ambar).
The main elevation shows nice architectural details: a large wrought iron balcony overlooking a delicate wrought iron entry gate, pediments on first floor windows, corbels on the second floor and arch topped windows in the middle of the facade.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 22 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Gate and balcony Dw 22.JPG|Detail of the gate and balcony
=Tenement at 23=
The first registered owner of Bahnhofstraße 9 is Emil Albrecht, running a blacksmith workshop producing wagons.
The facade on the street displays a lean and balanced elevation, renovated in the late 2010s.
File:Dworcowa 23.jpg|Facade at 23 Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 18 [[Doktora Emila Warmińskiego street in Bydgoszcz|Warmińskiego street]] corner with Dworcowa Street=
1905, by Carl Rose
First mention of the building at then Bahnhofstraße 88 occurred in 1872: Hermann Burow, a backer, was the owner. In 1890, August Hoffmann set up there a butcher shop ({{langx|de|Fleischerei und Wurst-Fabrik}}).Advertisement in 1890 Addressbook During the interwar period, it has been the local seat of the National Bank of Poland. It is now the seat of Bydgoszcz Tax Office .
The building recently renovated is a nice showcase of Art Nouveau architecture in Bydgoszcz: round shapes (dormers, gate, windows), vegetal motifs on the elevation, the bay windows and asymmetry of both facades.
File:Bdg Dworcowa-Warminsk18 2 07-2013.jpg|Facades view from street crossing
File:Warmińskiego 18 róg Dworcowej 2008.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa-Warminsk18 1 07-2013.jpg|Detail of corner facade
File:Dr Emile Warminski 18.JPG|Detail of the gate
=Tenement at 27=
Carl Wilhelm Feyertag, a merchant,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Mittler|date=1876|pages=17|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} was the first owner of this house then at Bahnhofstraße 11. His widow lived there until the 1910s. Feyertag widow owned also a tenement at 19 Piastkowski Square.
Facade style is inspired by Neoclassical architecture, similar to the neighbouring at Nr.29. Pilasters underline the symmetry of the elevation, with the balcony in the center.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 102 06-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Gate and access to backyard.JPG|Wrought iron Gate
=Tenement at 29=
Like at Nr.27, Carl Feyetag was the first registered owner of this building in the 1870s, then at Bahnhofstraße 12. However, he never lived there. In the late 1850s, the architect Anton Hoffmann rented there with his family.
The facade displays typical Neoclassical style: symmetry, bossage wall on the bottom and a corbel table on the top. It has been renovated in 2017.
File:Dworcowa 29 2017.jpg|Main frontage
=Tenement at 31=
1881, by H. Jenisch & Scheithauer
French and North European Eclecticism
At its inception, the tenement belonged to Franz Marr, a beer dealer,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen|location= Bromberg |publisher=Mittler|date=1882|pages=71|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} then in 1910 it was the property of Hermann Briebe, a furniture dealer.
The house differs from its neighbours by its height (one additional floor), and by its architecture with more ornaments (pilasters, corbels) and its motifs (garlands, frieze).
File:Bdg Dworcowa31 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 31 detail.jpg|Adorned window
File:Bdg Dworcowa31 1 5-2015.jpg|Detail of the frieze and table corbel
=Antonie Bomrente Tenement at 33=
1891, by Fritz Weidner
Antonie Bomrente, a cooper,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1892|pages=265|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} was the first owner of the actual building until World War I. It was then located at Bahnhofstraße 14: the facade still bears this initial numbering.
Many architectural details are still present on the building: above the gate, dividers, symbol of architecture, are set above a small barrel, recalling the profession of the first landlord. Two slight avant-corps balanced each side of the edifice. On the first floor, the middle part is enhanced by flanking pilasters with rosettes topped by a balustrade. Corbel tables crowns the facade, the ensemble is overlooked by a series of gable wall dormer.
File:Dworcowa 33 facade.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa33 3 07-2013.jpg|Balustrade and pilasters
File:Bdg Dworcowa33 1 07-2013.jpg|Entry porch, Nr.14 is the old Prussian street numeration
File:N33 detail.jpg|Detail of the portal, with dividers and barrel symbols.
=Tenement at 35=
First reference of Bahnhofstraße 15 is made around 1870, with Louis Gosdynski, a rentier, as owner. In 1900, building's property moved to Wilhelhm Zweiniger, a furrier.
The facade on Dworcowa street shed light on the fact that initially the tenement has been designed as two different houses, Nr.15 & 15a. There is clearly a divide between the left part bending on Neo-Renaissance style (symmetry, naked walls, flat roof) and the right one inclining on eclecticist diversity (balconies, bossage wall, cartouche decoration, mansard roof).
File:Bdg Dworcowa35 04-2014.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa35 2 04-2014.jpg|Detail of a balcony
File:Bdg Dworcowa35 2 5-2015.jpg|Two facades- two different styles
=Aleksander Theil Tenement at 39, corner with [[Marcinkowskiego street in Bydgoszcz|Marcinkowskiego street]]=
1890, by Józef Święcicki
The house at then Bahnhofstraße 17 was commissioned by Alexander Theil, a rentier living at Gammstraße 14.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1891|pages=215|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} The building housed on the ground floor three shops, each with a small apartment in the back and the upper floors accommodated two four-room apartments.
The corner house is remarkable by the ornamental painting between the windows of the first floor of the elevation on Dworcowa street. The edifice is massive, but the richness of its ornaments and motifs help it having a certain lightness.
File:Bdg Dworcowa39-Marcink 3 07-2013.jpg|View of the tenement from the street
File:Bdg Dworcowa39 2 5-2015.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa39 painting.jpg|Detail of the painting on 1st florr
File:Bdg Dworcowa39 4 5-2015.jpg|Detail of a pediment
File:Bdg Dworcowa39 5 5-2015.jpg|Detail of corbels
=Schultz Tenement at 40=
This building, then at Bahnhofstraße 78, has been commissioned by the Schultz family,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1890 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen|location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1890|pages=187|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} saddler masters. At the end of the 19th century a widow, Pauline Schultz, lived there, but her relatives owned the edifice until the outbreak of the second world war.{{cite book|title=Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy : na rok 1933 |location= Bydgoszcz|publisher=Władysław Weber|date=1933|pages=19|chapter=Ulicy }}
The house has been refurbished down to minute details in early 2018{{cite web |url=http://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/7,48722,22880975,odnowili-liczaca-ponad-100-lat-kamienice-przy-dworcowej-zdjecia.html |title=Odnowili liczącą ponad 100 lat kamienicę przy ul. Dworcowej |last=as |date=11 January 2018 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=18 December 2018}} One can admire the quality of the motifs: pilasters, rosettes, bossage on facade edges, balustrades, table corbel on top and a finely crafted winged helmet head of Hermes inside the pediment overlooking the main door.
File:Dworcowa 40 main.jpg|Renovated facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 40 door.jpg|Portal
File:Dworcowa 40 head.jpg|Adorned pediment
File:Dworcowa 40 2 New1.jpg|Detail of window decoration
File:Dworcowa 40 corbel.jpg|Corbel table
=Tenement at 41, corner with [[Marcinkowskiego street in Bydgoszcz|Marcinkowskiego street]]=
1904, by Erich Lindenburger
Franz Muhme, a mason, was the first owner of the actual building then at Bahnhofstraße 18: he was mainly renting rooms.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1906 |pages=62,138|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}}
In the 1910s, the house was divided into five properties, which landlords were: Mr. Meyer and Mr Giefe, rentiers not living in Bromberg, Hermann Lemke, a baker who had his shop there, Jahnke Jr., an engineer and Wilhelm Tornow, a mechanic.
Facades, renovated in 2015, have Neo-Baroque and early Modernism elements. The architect varied the effects to render the asymmetry: bay window, corner terrace and balconies, cartouches, eyelid dormer on the corner but a row of shed dormers on the roof giving onto Dworcowa Street. The house lost one of its corner tower during a fire.
File:1930 dworcowa 41.jpg|View ca 1930
File:Dworcowa 41 (4).JPG|Facades on Dworcowa and Marcinkowski Street
File:Dworcowa 41 (1).JPG|Detail of the corner tower
File:Dworcowa 41 gate.JPG|Main gate
File:Dworcowa 41 elevation.JPG|Elevation on Dworcowa street
=Willy Grawunder Tenement at 45=
1906, by Erich Lindenburger
The house, then at Bahnhofstraße 19, has been commissioned by Willy Grawunder, a merchant running a hardware store/perfumery in the premises.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1907 |pages=266|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} At the end of the 1920s, Willy Jahr, successful owner of a bicycle factory at Nakielska street 89, opened there a selling point for his production.
Facade compositions include loggias and balconies highlighted with wavy ornamented pilasters. The portal is also adorned with a wavy oval, similar to Art Nouveau townhouses in Munich. Eric Lindenburger used similar motifs for house at Nr.417 and at 3 Adam Mickiewicz.
File:Bdg Dworcowa45 3 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa 083 06-2013.jpg|Detail of a masque
File:Bdg Dworcowa 085 06-2013.jpg|Art Nouveau motifs
=Bruno Grawunder Tenement at 47=
1905,{{cite web|url =http://express.bydgoski.pl/194499,Swietlisty-dom-przy-Dworcowej.html|title=Świetlisty dom przy Dworcowej|date= 2011| website =express.bydgoski.pl| publisher =express.bydgoski| access-date=28 February 2016}} by Erich Lindenburger
Eclecticism, Munich Secession elements
Bruno Grawunder, a jeweler, supposedly a relative of Wilhelm at Nr.45, had this house built at then Bahnhofstraße 20.
The compositions on elevation include bow windows topped by balconies, loggias plus especially highlighted cartouches and a grand frieze elements deployed like square boards on top of the facade. Interiors materials are partly original woodwork and stained glass.
File:Bdg Dworcowa47 2 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa47 3 5-2015.jpg|Frieze elements
File:Bdg Dworcowa noc 5 07-2013.jpg|By night
=Tenement at 48, corner with [[Henryka Sienkiewicza Street, Bydgoszcz|Sienkiewicza street]]=
Bahnhofstraße 74 has been built in the early 1880s by Rob. Tuchscker, a pharmacist. He opened there his pharmacy, Kronen Apotheke, one of the few in the city at the time. A new pharmacist, Emil Affeldt, took over the firm at the same place from 1900 until the end of the 1920s.
Beautifully restored in 2018, the corner tenement displays two symmetric facades with a neo-classic style and a wrought iron balcony on its corner.
File:Dworcowa 48.jpg|Renovated facade on Dworcowa and Sienkiewicza Streets
=Tenement at 49=
Friedrich Heller, the first owner, was running a wine and spirit shop there (Bahnhofstraße 21). After WW I, Wilhelm Tornow had been running a growing bike factory there, renamed "Tornedo" in 1924.{{cite book |last= |first= |date=1984 |title=60 lat zakładów rowerowych "ROMET" 1924-1984 |trans-title=60 years of the plant cycle "ROMET" 1924-1984 |url= |language=pl |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Romet |isbn=}}
The main elevation is remarkable for its wrought iron balconies, and also for the ornamented cartouches on bay windows and facade. Ornaments include figures of woman, stylized lion, garlands and other vegetal motifs specific to Art Nouveau.
File:Bdg Dworcowa49 2 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 49 detail.jpg|Bay window detail
File:Dworcowa 49 door.jpg|Main entrance door
File:Bdg Dworcowa49 7 07-2013.jpg|Motif detail
=Tenement at 50, corner with [[Henryka Sienkiewicza Street, Bydgoszcz|Sienkiewicza Street]]=
Christian Theodore Hinß has been running there a coach workshop ({{langx|de|Wagenfabrikant}}) since 1880. His relative Carl was landlord until 1917.
Facades display a northern Neo-Renaissance style with elaborate ornament and scrollwork (on pediments, cartouches), balustrades, pinnacles, together with stone blocks imitation, bay windows and a mansard roof.
File:Dworcowa 50 1900.jpg|1900 postcard view
File:Bdg Dworcowa50 2 5-2015.jpg|Facades on Dworcowa and Sienkiewicz Streets
File:Bdg Dworcowa50 Sienkiewicza 2 01-2014.jpg|Facade on H. Sienkiewicz Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa50 Sienkiewicza 1 01-2014.jpg|Gable dormer
File:Bdg Dworcowa50 Sienkiewicza 7 01-2014.jpg|Corner bay window
File:Bdg Dworcowa50 Sienkiewicza 8 01-2014.jpg|Windows decoration
File:Dworcowa 50 rog Sienkiewicz detail.jpg|Lion face cartouche
=Ludwig Schultz Tenement at 54=
1893–1894, by Józef Święcicki
North European Mannerism, forms of Neo-Gothic
The house at then Bahnhofstraße 72 was part of an extensive property, between Dworcowa and Lipowa street which belonged to Ludwig Schultz, co-founder of shipping company Schultz und Winnemer.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann|date=1895|pages=11,28,161|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} The firm survived until World War I. During the interwar, the building housed a shelter for poors, run by Hermann Dietz.{{cite book |last=Przemysław Paweł Grzybowski |first=Katarzyna Marszałek Joanna Brzozowska |date=2019 |url=https://grzybowski.ukw.edu.pl/download/53921/Grzybowski,_Marsza%C5%82ek,_Brzozowska_-_Dom_na_szwederowskiej_skarpie.pdf |title=Dom na szwederowskiej skarpie |location=Kraków |publisher=Impuls|pages=265–273|isbn=9788380957466}}
It is an exceptional house with a very narrow body, a side wing with entrance on it. Most interesting are the arrangement of loggias, pinnacles, narrow and tall windows with small gargoyles to drain the water.
File:Kamienica Ludwiga Schultza 2024.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa54 2 01-2014.jpg|Pinnacle detail
=Tenement at 55/57=
German Historicism
Plots situated between Bahnhofstraße 22 and Bahnhofstraße 28 (from today 's Dworcowa Nr.51 to 61) were property of the Prussian Railway Direction ({{langx|de|Preußische Ostbahn}}) which had tenements erected to house officials, personnel and administration. The building at Nr.55/57 was one of them, realized in the beginning of the 20th century.
The massive building shows balanced facade with two grand bay windows, several balconies and a large terrace running between the gable, beneath dormers. Worth underlining are the two gates adorned with a typical Art Nouveau female figure (Nr.55) and with vegetal curly scrollwork (Nr.57).
File:Bdg Dworcowa57 1 07-2013.jpg|View of Nr.55 (front) and 57 (back)
File:Gate Dw55.JPG|Portal Art nouveau 55
File:55 Dworcowa.jpg|Facade at 55
File:Dworcowa 57 transom.jpg|Transom light at 57
File:Dworcowa 57 elevation.jpg|Main elevation at 57
=Theodore Flöther Tenement at 56=
At its inception, landlord of actual tenement (then at Bahnhofstraße 71) was Theodore Flöther,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann|date=1904|pages=46|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} who was the founder of a firm producing agricultural machines in Jasień, Lubusz Voivodeship.{{cite web|url=http://www.jasien.eu/index.php/th-floether-fabryka-maszyn-rolniczych|title=Th. Flöther Fabryka Maszyn Rolniczych|date=2013|website=jasien.eu|publisher=jasien.eu|access-date=28 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305153830/http://www.jasien.eu/index.php/th-floether-fabryka-maszyn-rolniczych|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Both the actual building and the neighbouring one (Nr.58, non existent today) have been used to showcase the production of the factory until end of World War I. In the 1930s, the building housed a coffee shop roasting and grinding coffee, run by W.J. LuczkowskiAdvertisement in a 1929 Address Book of Bydgoszcz
The ground floor of the edifice still got the large curved glass openings designed for exhibiting machines. First floor windows are framed with delicate ornamentation and scrollwork, especially the larger one on the right, with its early Art Nouveau tympanon motifs inside the triangular pediment.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 56 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa56 1 01-2014.jpg|Window detail
=Tenement at 61=
1873–1874, by Gustaw Weihe
Gustaw Weihe, the architect selected for this building, will later be the main designer of Hotel Ratuszowy in Długa street in 1881. The house was first possessed by the Wulf brothers (Adolf & Theodor), factory managers: the also had the adjoining house where the tramway line runs today to the bridge over the Brda. Later, in the 1880s, all plots situated between Bahnhofstraße 22 and Bahnhofstraße 28 (from today 's Dworcowa Nr.51 to 63) were bought by the Prussian Railway Direction ({{langx|de|Preußische Ostbahn}}) to house officials, personnel and administration.
The main elevation is influenced by Italian Cinquecento, with its pilastered windows and the triangular pediments. Refurbished in 2018, one can now make out fine details, such as scrollworks, a row of lion's heads crowning the elevation and a nice stretch of rosettes spanning like a frieze.
File:Dworcowa 61 frontage.jpg|Main elevation on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 61 frieze.jpg|Detail of the upper floors, with lion's head and rosettes
File:Dworcowa 61 details.jpg|Scrollworks detail
File:Dworcowa 61 door.jpg|Entrance door
=Tenement at 62=
=Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters, at 63=
Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601288-Reg.A/748, December 10, 1971
{{main|Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters in Bydgoszcz}}
1886–1889, by Martin Gropius, Heino Schmieden
Dutch Mannerism
Seat of Prussian Eastern Railway (1889–1895), then regional directorate (1895–1920), Pomeranian rail agency and the Central Bureau of Foreign Settlements (1922–1939), and seat of French-Polish Rail Association (1937–1939).
File:Bydgoszcz, gmach Dyrekcji Kolei, 1886-1889 j.JPG|View from Dworcowa street
File:Bdg Dyrekcja Kolei panorama.jpg|Former Prussian Railways Company building
=State Archives building at 65=
The first owners of the building at Bahnhofstraße 29 were the Wulf brothers (Adolf & Theodor). They set up in 1865 a shipyard and a steel structure factory;{{cite book |last=Derkowska-Kostkowska |first=Bogna |date=2000 |title=DZIEJE I ARCHITEKTURA BYDGOSKICH FABRYK. Kalendarz Bydgoski |location=Bromberg |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy |pages=97–102}} this building housed their offices and their residential house. After the liquidation of their company in 1876, the building has housed in 1886 the General Commission ({{langx|de|general kommissionsgebäude}}) conducting land reform in East and West Prussia as well as in the Grand Duchy of Poznań.{{cite book |last=Czachorowski |first=Antoni |date=1997 |title=Atlas historyczny miast polskich, Tom II Kujawy. Zeszyt I Bydgoszcz |location=Toruń |publisher=Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika Toruń }} Since 1906 it operates as an archive building.{{cite web| url =http://www.bydgoszcz.ap.gov.pl/index.php?c=page&id=69| title =Historia| date = 2016| website =Archiwum Państwowe w Bydgoszczy| publisher =biuletyn informacji publicznej| access-date=20 March 2016}} At the back of the plot, one can still spot the old brick factory buildings from the Wulf brothers' period.{{cite book |last=Derkowska-Kostkowska |first=Bogna |date=2000 |title=DZIEJE I ARCHITEKTURA BYDGOSKICH FABRYK. Kalendarz Bydgoski |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy }}
File:Dworcowa 65 Archiwum Państwowe 2008.jpg|View from Dworcowa street
File:Bdg ArchM pnr 05-2013.jpg|Side view
File:Dworcowa 65 balcony.jpg|Balcony details
File:Dworcowa 65 windows.jpg|Windows adornement
File:Dworcowa 65 backyard (2).jpg|Old brick factory buildings
=Tenement at 66=
Italian Neo-Renaissance
Eduard Greuer, a locksmith was the first landlord of this tenement located at then Bahnhofstraße 66.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1887|pages=52|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} In the 1910s the new landlord, Joseph Zawitaj, had his metal moulding workshop there.
The facade displays a typical Neo-Renaissance style, with Italian forms: triangular and curved pediments, cartouches beneath first floor windows, a minute avant-corps and a wrought iron entry gate.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 66 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 66 gate.jpg|Wrought iron gate to the building
=Erick Hecht tenement at 67=
1912–1913, by Otto Walter
Erick Hecht, a bookseller who had his shop on 19 Dantzigerstraße, commissioned Berliner architect Otto Walther to design his house at Bahnhoffstraße 30. Otto Walther, at the time, had just finished realizing the department store Jedynak at the crossing with Gdańska Street.
The main elevation is overwhelmed with bas-reliefs, among which:
- A horse rider above the entrance gate;{{cite web| url =http://bydgoszcz.gazeta.pl/bydgoszcz/1,48722,16737430,Imponujaca_kamienica_w_centrum_miasta_pojdzie_pod.html| title=Imponująca kamienica w centrum miasta pójdzie pod młotek |last=Małgorzata Czajkowska |first=Aleksandra Lewińska |date=2014 |website=Wyborcza.pl |publisher=bydgoszcz.wyborcza |access-date=8 March 2016}}
- A fish, symbolizing the owner, since Hecht means pike in German;
- A 19th-century girl, another with horns, a baby's head, a man with royal attributes;
- A figure supposed to be Lady Godiva.{{cite web| url =http://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/1,128852,13716286,Ile_zawdzieczamy_niemieckim_architektom.html?|title= Ile zawdzięczamy niemieckim architektom
|last=Aleksandra Lewińska|date= 2013|website =Wyborcza.pl| publisher=Agora SA| access-date=20 March 2016}}
Since 2019, the ensemble is under heavy renovation works, so as to transform it into a luxuous residential building.{{cite web| url =https://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/7,48722,25511554,dworcowa-67-prace-w-pieknej-kamienicy-otto-waltera-juz-za-polmetkiem.html| title=Dworcowa 67. Prace w pięknej kamienicy Ottona Walthera już za półmetkiem |last=kad |first= |date=16 December 2019 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=7 September 2022}}
File:Bdg Dworcowa67 2 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa 034 06-2013.jpg|balconies with bas-reliefs
File:Bdg Dworcowa 67det c 05-2013.jpg|balconies with bas-reliefs
File:Bdg Dworcowa 67det a 05-2013.jpg|Detail of the tympanum
File:Bdg Dworcowa 036 06-2013.jpg|Detail of animal figures
=Tenement at 68=
1893–1894, by Karl Bergner
The initial owner of the house at then Bahnhofstraße 65 was Karl Schultz, a metal craftsman.
The building echoes almost perfectly its neighbour at Nr.66. Same Neo-Renaissance features, identical size and similar architectural motifs.
File:Dworcowa 68 (1).JPG|View from Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 68.JPG|Facade detail
File:Facade detail Dw68.JPG|Detail of windows decoration
=Hermann Dyck Tenement at 71, corner with [[Jadwiga of Poland|Krolowa Jadwiga]] Street=
Hermann Dyck, a merchant selling steam sawmills,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg| publisher=Dittmann |date=1897 |pages=38, 62 |chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} had the house at Bahnhoffstraße 31 erected by Fritz Weidner.
Rebuilt entirely in 1956, the facade lost its original Neo-Baroque features.
File:Dworcowa 71 1900s.jpg|The building in the early 20th century
File:Bdg Dworcowa 021 06-2013.jpg|Corner on Dworcowa and Krolowej Jadwigi Street
=Herold tenement, at 73=
1911–1912, by Otto Müller
Fritz Herold, a rentier, had this building located at Bahnhoffstraße 31a constructed by Otto Müller. He moved there in 1898.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann |date=1898|pages=70|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} Unfortunately, the tenement burned down in 1945. The architect Fritz Weidner has lived there with his family until 1937. From 1922 onwards, the Polish journalist, writer and national activist Stefania Tuchołkowa lived their with her family.{{cite book |last1=Nadolska |first1=Anna |date=1995 |title=Ziemianka w służbie B ydgoszczy. Kulturalna, społeczna i narodowa działalność Stefanii Tuchołkowej na początku XX wieku. Kronika Bydgoska 39 |trans-title=A landowner in the service of Bydgoszcz. Cultural, social and national activity of Stefania Tuchołkowa at the beginning of the 20th century. Bydgoszcz Chronicles 39|url=https://czasopisma.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/kronika-bydgoska/article/download/1161/1217/1813 |language=pl |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłosnikow Miasta Bydgoszczy - Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Naukowe |pages=85–102 |isbn=}}
Urban-type building, the facade displays bay windows and bow windows with an inclination to Art Nouveau: round gable top, vegetal motifs, curved cartouches and an adorned gate.
File:Bdg Dworcowa73 1 07-2013.jpg|Facade onto Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa73 3 5-2015.jpg|Balcony topping the bay window
File:Bdg Dworcowa73 4 5-2015.jpg|motifs detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa73 1 5-2015.jpg|motifs detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa73 6 5-2015.jpg|motifs detail
=Ernst Baudelow tenement, at 74 - corner with [[Jan Matejko|Matejki]] street=
Ernst Baudelow, a merchant, ordered the construction of this building at the end of the 19th century.
Between 1908 and 1925, the tenement, then at Bahnhoffstraße 62 was an hotel, Hotel Darheim.
The edifice is typical of Eclecticism, as one can encounter in downtown Bydgoszcz. The elevation on Dworcowa is characterised by heavy pediments and large wrought iron balconies supported by corbels. On Matejko street, the facade is less adorned.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 74 03-2013.jpg|Corner house on Dworcowa and Matejki streets
File:Dworcowa 74.jpg|Facade onto Dworcowa
File:Bdg Dworcowa74-Matejki 1 01-2014.jpg|balconies on Dworcowa street
=Tenement at 75=
1911–1912, by Otto Müller
Richard Hoppe, a preacher, was the first owner of this tenement at then Bahnhoffstraße 31b.
Andrzej Szwalbe, the first director of Pomeranian Philharmonic from 1953 to 1991, lived there. A commemorative plaque was unveiled on June 30, 2003.
Few elements survived time, especially the architectural details. Only the decoration of the gate still displays vegetal forms crowned by a coat of arms containing a lamb of God. The rest of the facade is balanced by two bay windows flanked by loggias, with balconies in the middle of the lot.
File:75 Dworcowa 2022.jpg|Renovated facade in 2022
File:Dworcowa 75 gable.jpg|View of the gable
File:Dworcowa 75 gate.jpg|Main gate
File:Bydgoszcz-plaque-Andrzej-Szwalbe.jpg|Memorial plaque for Andrzej Szwalbe
=Tenement at 76=
Eclecticism & Neo-Baroque elements
Joseph Schreiber, a miller, was the first owner of Bahnhoffstraße 61.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Louis Levit|date=1864|pages=58|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}}
Particularly noticeable elements are:
- A highly decorated gate frame, flanked by columns and crowned by a pediment;
- A grand bay window, sheltering a loggia, supported by heavy corbels, surrounded by columns and topped by a small terrace (building).
File:Dworcowa 76.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 76 detail.jpg|Detail of the adorned gate
=Albin Cohnfeld tenement, at 77=
1876, by Karl Bergner{{cite book |date=July 2014|title=Bydgoszcz Guide |url=http://kujawsko-pomorskie.travel/en |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=City of Bydgoszcz |page=107|isbn=978-83-917786-7-8}}
Eclecticism, elements of Neo-baroque
The Cohnfeld family, Gustav, Albin then their heirs, owned the plot at Bahnhofstraße 32 even before the erection of the present edifice, and kept it until the mid-1910s.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Mittler|date=1878|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis|pages=I-III,13,132,135}}
The facade, newly refurbished in 2020,{{cite web |url=https://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/7,48722,26559720,bydgoskie-kamienice-odzyskuja-dawna-swietnosc.html |title=Dworcowa 77: Perełka architektoniczna znów zachwyca elegancją i zdobieniami |last=Szczygielska-Jakubowska |first=Agata |date=30 November 2020 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=4 December 2020}} has a rich Eclectic ornamentation. One can quote, among others, a highly adorned wrought iron balcony and bay window ensemble with sculpted atlants, elaborated ornaments, and a cartouche containing the initials CA for Albin Cohnfeld, commissioner of the building. The entire facade, topped by a table corbel, possess on second and third floors a very rich decoration, with delicate flower and vegetal motifs, in pediments or around the openings. Above the bay window stands an onion dome steeple.
File:Dworcowa 77 facade.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 77 balcony.jpg|Balcony and initials within the cartouche
File:Dworcowa 77 stuccoes.jpg|Stuccoed motifs
File:Bdg Dworcowa77 5 5-2015.jpg|Onion dome steeple
=Hotel Asystenta at 79, corner with [[John III Sobieski|Sobieskiego]] Street=
Initially owned by a restaurateur, Gustav Müller,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Mittler|date=1872|pages=II–III,22–23,34,53,75,80,105}} at its erection, the house at Bahnhofstraße 33 was then bought by Julius Schliep in 1889 to run a hotel Schliep's Hotel. In 1920, new landlord Leon Ciemniak renamed it Hotel International,{{cite book|title=Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy|date=1928|pages=16, 17|chapter=Spis alfabetyczny poszczególnych branż.}} then Hotel Metropol (1932), and Hotel Asystenta ({{langx|en|Assistance hotel}}) in the 1970s, linked to the Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz (today Collegium Medicum UMK).{{cite web |url=https://www.bydgoszcz.pl/aktualnosci/tresc/dawny-hotel-przy-ul-dworcowej-wypieknieje/ |title=Dawny hotel przy ul. Dworcowej wypięknieje |last=UAF |date=5 February 2021 |website=bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=Miasto Bydgoszcz |access-date=7 September 2022}}
The refurbishing of the 1970s gave to the facade forms of Modern architecture. Anyhow, its general shape reveals its old roots (gables type for instance), in a way similar to one of the old house at 37 Gdańska Street. The building was refurbished in 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.bydgoszcz.pl/aktualnosci/tresc/ulica-dworcowa-pelna-odrestaurowanych-elewacji/ |title=Ulica Dworcowa pełna odrestaurowanych elewacji |last=UAF |date=16 June 2021 |website=bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=Miasto Bydgoszcz |access-date=7 September 2022}}
File:Bdg Hotel Asystenta.jpg|Ronvated facade on Dworcowa Street
File:79 Dworcowa 1900.jpg|Schliep's hotel ca 1900
File:Dworcowa 79 Adv 1894.jpg|Schliep's hotel advertising in 1894
=Foreign Language Teacher Training College at 80=
The building at then Bahnhoffstraße 59 has been designed to house the activity of Franz Bengsch,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann|date=1893|pages=14|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} who ran a wood transport company there until the end of World War I. During the interwar period, the tenement was owned by the Ramme Brothers, who had a workshop in Grunwaldzka street for repairing agricultural machines.{{cite book|title=Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy|date=1933|pages=253|chapter=Alfabetyczny spis mieszkańców miasta Bydgoszczy }}
Since 1990, the building houses the Foreign Language Teacher Training College or NKJO ({{langx|pl|Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Bydgoszczy}}), subordinated to universities of Poznań and Warsaw. A plaque has been placed on the facade in honor of railway engineer Ernest Malinowski (1818–1899), patron of NKJO Spanish section.
The facade has reminiscences of Neo-Renaissance elements, with its bare wall and the overall symmetry of the ensemble.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 80 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 80 gate.jpg|Detail of the gate
File:Dworcowa 60 NKJO - tablica.jpg|Plaque to Ernest Malinowski's memory.
=Eltra tower at 81=
The tower building was erected to house the seat of the company "Eltra", founded in 1923 in Bydgoszcz.{{cite book |last=Kornet |first=Dorota |author-link= |date=1997 |title=Przemysł elektrotechniczny w Bydgoszczy w latach 1920–1939 (cz. 1). Kronika Bydgoska XVIII. |url= |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłosnikow Miasta Bydgoszczy - Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Naukowe |pages=67–97 |isbn=}} It is one of the oldest firms in the electrotechnical industry in Poland. In 1959, it produced the first Polish transistor radio "Eltra MOT-59".{{cite book |last=Wdowicki |first=Maciej |author-link= |date=2013 |title=Telewizor znad Brdy. Kalendarz Bydgoski |url= |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy |pages=274–276|isbn=}} In 2003, it was established as a joint-stock company named "Elda-Eltra Elektrotechnika", belonging to the international concern Schneider Electric.{{cite book |last=Kamosiński |first=Sławomir |author-link= |date=2015 |title=Miasta przemysłowe dolnej Wisły. Historia polskich okręgów i rejonów przemysłowych. Tom I |url= |location=Warszawa |publisher=Polskie Towarzystwo Historii Gospodarczej |pages=176–177|isbn=9788394217013}}
The {{convert|45|m|ft}} tall tower has been revamped in 2019–2020.{{cite web |url=https://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/5,48722,24327310.html |title=Biurowiec Eltry powoli się zmienia. Już nie jest najszpetniejszy |last=ml |first= |date=3 January 2019 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=7 September 2022 |quote=}}
File:Eltra tower Dworcowa.jpg|Renovated tower in 2021
=Elementary school at 82=
Earliest reference of the building at Bahnhofstraße 58 can be found in the address book of Bromberg in 1869,{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Louis Levis|date=1869|pages=67, 81}} where it is described as "Bahnhofstraße Public school", {{langx|de|Schule der Bahnhofstraße}}. It is then renamed "State school for boys and for girls" ({{langx|de|Städtische Knaben- und Mädchenschule}}) in 1876. After World War I, the building kept its educational aims as Public school for boys Nr.1{{cite book|title=Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy|date=1933|chapter=Spis alfabetyczny poszczególnych branż.}}
Today, the edifice houses the Culture house for Youth Nr.4 ({{langx|pl|Młodzieżowy Dom Kultury nr 4}}).
The house shows early forms of Eclecticism, with references to German Historicism in the display of bricks chosen in two different colors.
File:Bdg Dworcowa82 02-2014.jpg|View from Dworcowa Street
File:1876 dworcowa82.jpg|The school on an 1876 map
=Tenement at 84=
Louis Bollmann, founder in 1898 of a brick factory, was the first owner of the tenement{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann|date=1901|pages=17|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} then located at Bahnhofstraße 57 until the 1910s.
The facade is well balanced, with two balconies on each side, with balustrades and wrought iron details. A very large balcony stands in the middle of the elevation, topped by a full row of balusters on the roof. The gate frame is ornamented with columns and a pediment where stands a large sculpture of a sitting crowned lion, holding a coat of arms with shields.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 84 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa84 2 07-2013.jpg|Main elevation detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa84 1 07-2013.jpg|Detail of the entry pediment
=Hotel Centralny at 85, corner with [[Union of Lublin|Unii Lubelskiej]] street=
1875–1876, by Gustaw Weihe
F.F.A.H. Brennecke, a railway operation controleur, is the first registered owner of the house at Bahnhofstraße 37. In 1900, the edifice became the Hotel Victoria and Hotel "Viktoria" in 1920, run by Jan Draheim. It is still a hotel today, "Hotel Centralny".
The architecture of this corner house is typical of the last quarter of the 19th century: a two-storey (plus attic) tenement, with few decoration on the outside, except a frieze running beneath the gable, some shed dormers, and a nicely adorned bay window on the corner. Quite noticeable is the entry in the corner, flanked by two columns.
File:Bdg Dworcowa85 hotel Centralny 07-2013.jpg|View from Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg hotelCentralny 1 02-2014.jpg|View from Unii Lubelskiej street
File:Bdg hotelCentralny 4 02-2014.jpg|Frieze detail
File:Bdg hotelCentralny 5 02-2014.jpg|Detail of the corner bay window
=Heinrich Kirsch tenement, at 86=
1904, by Rudolf Kern
Heinrich Kirsch was the owner of the newly commissioned house to Rudolf Kern at Bahnhofstraße 56.{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann|date=1905|pages=95,186|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} He lived there until World War I.
At the same time, the architect has been building his own house at 1 Adam Mickiewicz Alley. The building underwent a thorough renovation in 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.bydgoszcz.pl/aktualnosci/tresc/wiekowe-kamienice-przy-ulicy-dworcowej-w-remoncie/ |title=Wiekowe kamienice przy ulicy Dworcowej w remoncie |last=UAF |date=5 July 2020 |website=bydgoszcz.pl |publisher=Miasto Bydgoszcz |access-date=4 December 2020}}
The main elevation, now refurbished, reveals Art Nouveau inclinations: curved shapes of the gable, portals and transom emphasize the Secession inspiration of Rudolf Kern. In addition, the facade strikes by its huge bay window, topped by a balcony.
File:86 Dworcowa.jpg|Facade at Nr.86 after renovation
=Tenement at 87=
The tenement at then Bahnhofstraße 38, even though conceived as a habitation house at its inception in 1876, soon turned to house a hotel: Heise's Hotel in 1876, Hoffman's Hotel in 1884{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg|publisher=Dittmann|date=1884|pages=V|chapter=Straßen}} then Gelhorn's Hotel from 1887 to 1939, period from which the actual building dates back to.
After WWII, the building was the local seat of the United People's Party ({{langx|pl|Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe, ZSL}}). On March 16, 1981, it was occupied by farm workers from the trade union "Solidarity" ({{langx|pl|Solidarność}}).{{cite web |url=https://bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl/bydgoszcz/56,48722,22405884,bydgoskie-miejsca-solidarnosci-mamy-jedno-nowe,,11.html |title=Bydgoskie miejsca Solidarności. Mamy jedno nowe? |last=al |first=jk |date=25 September 2017 |website=bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl |publisher=Agora SA |access-date=23 December 2022 |quote=}}
The facade reflects Neo-Renaissance elements, with its bared wall and minimal window decoration. One can notice the original transom above the vehicle entry, on the left of the elevation.
File:Dworcowa 87 dawny hotel.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 88=
A restaurateur at then Bahnhofstraße 55, Emil Geste, sold in 1899 the tenement{{cite book|title=Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen |location= Bromberg |publisher=Dittmann |date=1899|pages=53|chapter=Alphabetische Verzeichnis}} to Clara and Reinhold Rosente, wine and delicatessen merchands, who owned already the adjoining house at Nr.54 (corner with Śniadecki Street).
The facade reflects nicely Neo-Renaissance style: symmetry of the ensemble (balconies disposition, gates locations), specific decoration of openings per level (pediments with Acanthus or bare). It incorporates somehow Neo-Baroque elements, for instance in the wrought iron balustrade of balconies, or the top curved gable. Worth noticeable is the door gate, delicately adorned, as well as the Hermes figure overlooking the entry.
File:Bdg Dworcowa88 1 07-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa88 2 07-2013.jpg|Gate detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa88 3 07-2013.jpg|Gable detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa88 2 02-2014.jpg|Ornamentation detail
=Tenement at 89, corner with [[Sigismund II Augustus|Zygmunt August]] Street=
Friedrich Kalau, mail office director, was the first landlord of house at then Bahnhofstraße 39. The year after, the building became a hotel,
Hotel du Nord. Its name changes several times, "Riller's Hotel" in 1875 and "Gelhorn's Hotel" in 1898 run by Anna and Max Scheidling, then by Johannes Bohlmann from the 1910s until World War II.
The facade mirrors neighbouring one at Nr.87, but for its larger middle balustrade and the position of the entry gate.
File:Dworcowa 89 dawny hotel.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Dworcowa 89 gate BW.jpg|Main gate and bay window
File:Dworcowa 89 (2).jpg|Old style advertising on building's side
=Hotel Brda at 94=
{{main|Hotel Brda in Bydgoszcz}}
1854 & 1972
Before the Brda hotel (1972), several other hotel have been standing there: Heise’s Hotel (1889), Hotel zur Neue Stadt (1891) and Hotel Nowe Miasto (1920–1922).
File:Bdg HotelBrda1 02-2014.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Tenement at 98=
The tenement at Bahnhofstraße 50 was owned by Albin Cohnfeld, a rentier, who lived at 77 Dworcowa Street. He also owned the adjoining house at Nr.100. Between 1894 and 1937, a Post Office ({{langx|de|Postamt}}) has been standing there.{{cite book |last=Winter |first=Piotr |date=1997 |title=Dawne bydgoskie budynki pocztowe i z pocztą związane. Materiały do Dziejów Kultury i Sztuki Bydgoszczy i regionu, zeszyt 2 |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Pracownia Dokumentacji i Popularyzacji Zabytków Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Kultury w Bydgoszczy |page=17}}
The facade has a rich decoration, including:
- On the ground floor, bossages and mascarons above each window;
- On the second floor, a wrought iron balcony.
On both levels, opening are topped by pediments. Most remarkable is the delicate bay window prolonged by a loggia with columns on the second floor, capped by a Tented roof steeple.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 98 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
File:Bdg Dworcowa96 1 02-2014.jpg|Gate detail
File:Bdg Dworcowa98det 07-2013.jpg|Detail of the steeple
File:Dworcowa 98 maszkarony.jpg|Facade decoration
=Tenement at 100, corner with [[John III Sobieski|Sobieskiego]] street=
1870, rebuilt in 1885, by Józef Święcicki and Anton Hoffmann{{cite book |last=DERKOWSKA-KOSTKOWSKA |first=BOGNA |date=2001 |title=Józef Święcicki - szkic do biografii bydgoskiego budowniczego. MATERIAŁY DO DZIEJOW KULTURY I SZTUKI BYDGOSZCZY I REGIONU 6 |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Pracownia dokumentacji i popularyzacji zabytków wojewódzkiego ośrodka kultury w Bydgoszczy |pages=32–50 }}
House at then Bahnhofstraße 49, together with the one at Bahnhofstraße 50 (98 Dworcowa), have been owned since the 1870s by Albin Cohnfeld, a rentier, who lived at 77 Dworcowa Street. From 1877 to 1886, the building housed an hotel, Hotel St. Petersburg, run by Louis Jacobowski between 1877 and 1886. From 1913 to 1918, the tenement housed an auxiliary boy school ({{langx|de|Hilfsschule }}), subsidiary to the "Johannischule" located at 20 Świętojańska street.{{cite book |last=Derkowska-Kostkowska |first=Bogna |date=1998 |title=Onegdaj była Szkołą Karola. Kalendarz Bydgoski |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy |pages=197–202}}
The eclectic styled facade has lost almost all of its features with time. Few pediments on second floor windows and a wrought iron entry grille are left.
File:Bdg Dworcowa 100 03-2013.jpg|Facade on Dworcowa Street
=Main train Station=
{{main|Bydgoszcz Główna railway station}}
1851, 1968, 2015
Oldest and largest railway station in Bydgoszcz, it has undergone a major rebuilding which ended in December 2015.
File:Bydgoszcz Glowna new building.JPG|New train station building
File:Bydgoszcz Glowna wewn3 9-2015.jpg|The historical terminal renovated
{{wide image|Bdg Dworcowa pnr2 07-2013.jpg|1200px|Dworcowa street, Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters (left), State Archives building (right)}}
See also
{{commons category|Dworcowa Street in Bydgoszcz}}
References
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External links
- {{inlang|pl}} [http://www.produkcja.makrum.pl/en Heavy steel structure factory]
- {{inlang|pl}} [http://ambar.bydgoszcz.pl/ Pizzeria Ambar in Dworcowa street]
- {{inlang|pl}} [https://67dworcowa.pl/ Residential building project at 67]
- {{inlang|pl}} [http://www.mdk4.pl/ Culture house for Youth Nr.4 at Dworcowa 82]
- {{inlang|pl}} [http://hotelcentralny.wix.com/bydgoszcz Hotel Centralny at Dworcowa 85] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506233626/http://hotelcentralny.wix.com/bydgoszcz |date=2014-05-06 }}
Bibliography
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Derenda |first=Jerzy|date=2006 |title=Piękna stara Bydgoszcz, t. I z serii Bydgoszcz, miasto na Kujawach |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=warzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy |pages= |isbn=9788391617816}}
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Bręczewska-Kulesza |first=Daria |date= |title=Przegląd stylów występujących w bydgoskiej architekturze drugiej połowy XIX i początku XX stulecia |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher= |page= |isbn=}}
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Jastrzębska-Puzowska |first=Iwona |date=2005 |title=Od miasteczka do metropolii. Rozwój architektoniczny i urbanistyczny Bydgoszczy w latach 1850-1920 |location=Toruń |publisher=Wydawnictwo MADO |page= |isbn=9788389886385}}
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Umiński |first=Janusz |date=1996 |title=Bydgoszcz. Przewodnik |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Regionalny Oddział PTTK "Szlak Brdy" |page= |isbn=}}
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Derkowska-Kostkowska |first=Bogna|date=2001 |title=Józef Swiecicki – szkic biografii bydgoskiego budowniczego. Materiały do dziejów kultury i sztuki Bydgoszczy i regionu, z. 6 |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Pracownia Dokumentacji i Popularyzacji Zabytków Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Kultury w Bydgoszczy |pages=32–50}}
- {{in lang|pl}} {{cite book |last=Bręczewska-Kulesza |first=Daria |date=2001 |title=Rozwój budownictwa hotelowego w Bydgoszczy w 2. polowie XIX i na początku XX wieku. Materiały do dziejów kultury i sztuki Bydgoszczy i regionu, z. 7 |location=Bydgoszcz |publisher=Pracownia Dokumentacji i Popularyzacji Zabytków Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Kultury w Bydgoszczy |pages=61–85}}
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