Rudolf Kern Building

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Rudolf Kern Tenement
Polish: Kamienica Rudolfa Kerna w Bydgoszczy
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Tenement from Gdanska Street
Rudolf Kern Building
General information
Type Tenement
Architectural style Art Nouveau
ClassificationN°601377-Reg.A/1086, 20 November 1995 [1]
Location1 Mickiewicz Alley, at the intersection with Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz, Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Coordinates Coordinates: 53°7′55″N18°0′36″E / 53.13194°N 18.01000°E / 53.13194; 18.01000
Groundbreaking1903
Completed1904
Client Rudolf Kern
Technical details
Floor count5
Design and construction
Architect 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.

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Location

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

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

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:

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

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Art Nouveau Design: Characteristics, History, Artists". visual-arts-cork.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.

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Panorama on Gdanska Street intersection with Mickiewicz alley, the building on the left
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