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Rudolf Kern Building

Coordinates: 53°7′55″N 18°0′36″E / 53.13194°N 18.01000°E / 53.13194; 18.01000
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Rudolf Kern Tenement
Polish: Kamienica Rudolfa Kerna w Bydgoszczy
Tenement from Gdańska Street
Tenement from Gdańska Street
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General information
TypeTenement
Architectural styleArt Nouveau
ClassificationNr.601377-Reg.A/1086, 20 November 1995[1]
Location1 Mickiewicz Alley, at the intersection with Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz,  Poland
Coordinates53°7′55″N 18°0′36″E / 53.13194°N 18.01000°E / 53.13194; 18.01000
Groundbreaking1903
Completed1904
ClientRudolf Kern
Technical details
Floor count5
Design and construction
Architect(s)Rudolf Kern

Rudolf Kern Tenement is a habitation building located at 1 Mickiewicz Alley, in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It has been inscribed on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.

Location

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The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street at the intersection with Mickiewicz Alley.

It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:

History

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On the plot, before the current building, there was a tavern (German: wirtschaft), managed by Emil Manthei[2]

This made the area prone to leisure, emphasized by the presence, since the end of the 19th century, of a theatre and a restaurant on the other side of the intersection (at 66-68 Gdańska street).

The house was built in 1903–1904, designed by the architect Rudolf Kern, a student of Józef Święcicki who also erected or redesigned other buildings in Gdańska Street:[3]

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

The building will soon accommodate a four-star hotel, including a gastronomic restaurant, with recreational and commercial areas.[4]

Features

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The building has a decorative Art Nouveau facade. It has four main floors and one hidden in the upper roof. In a way its size balances the symmetry with the opposite building.[5]

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.[5]

Notable elements:

  • low-relief adorned portal;
  • large threatening masks on the facade;
  • many interior design original elements such as staircase, stained glass, woodwork.

The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Heritage List Nr.601377 Reg.A/1086, on 20 November 1995.[1]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b zabytek|kujawsko-pomorskie|issued=1.03.2014
  2. ^ "names". Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten für 1900: auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1900. p. 126.
  3. ^ Jastrzębska-Puzowska, Iwona (2006). Od miasteczka do metropolii. Rozwój architektoniczny i urbanistyczny Bydgoszczy w latach 1850–1920. Bydgoszcz: Mado. ISBN 8389886715.
  4. ^ Tota, Justina (23 February 2017). "W kamienicy na rogu Gdańskiej i Mickiewicza będzie hotel". expressbydgoski.pl. expressbydgoski. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Art Nouveau Design: Characteristics, History, Artists". visual-arts-cork.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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Bibliography

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  • (in Polish) Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 9788386970100.
Panorama on Gdańska Street intersection with Mickiewicz alley, the building on the left