Sielanka Street is a small and twisty road, laid in the mid-1910s in downtown Bydgoszcz. It displays a series of villas, each of which is unique in its architectural concept.
Sielanka street is located in the Śródmieście (downtown) district. Its short path interlaces with three other streets in the area: from its southern tip at Markwarta street, it crosses Stanisława Wyspiańskiego street and ends, after a western bend along Marian Turwid square, at Czesława Miłosza street.
This triangular area was then further developed as the Sielanka estate (English: Idyll). Based on an initial design by Josef Stübben (1845 – 1936), the project was led by urban engineer Heinrich Metzger and surveyor Bernhard Hirsch. Sielanka street is patently at the heart of this estate.
The area was initially known by its plaza (today's Marian Turwid square), which was developed under the following names:[2]
Eigenheim Platz (English: Home square), in the mid-1910s;
The initial landlord was registered as Ludwik Biały, a sworn auditor, who, at the time, had access to his private phone line.[5] Ludwik is the father of Leszek Biały, a Polish hero of the Home Army during the Second World War,[6] whose name has been given to a nearby square in Sielanka. In April 2020, the villa has been razed down by decision of the city authorities.[7] The building had been actually in a very bad shape for many years, cracked in its foundations and only held by clamps. A private investor will finally reconstruct this villa to its initial architectural state.[8]
Its first owner, Artur Zaborowski or Zborowoski, was not living there, but at 11 Kwiatowa street, further west in the downtown district.[9] He was working as a book seller.
Architect Bronisław Jankowski, though the first registered owner of this villa, never inhabited here.[11]
The beautifully restored house displays two modernist habitation blocks articulated with a round avant-corps harbouring the staircase. The external flight of stairs from the outside clutches to this circular shape as well.
Rafał Kuklińscy, the first landlord, did not inhabit the villa nor was living in Bydgoszcz area, according to the address registries.[9]
The structure of the house is somehow conventional for the modernist 1930s. One can highlight the half-moon avant-corps with terrace that hangs over the back garden.
Elevation onto the street
View of the southwestern corner
Gustaw Bernaczek Villa at 8, corner with Wyspiańskiego street
Villa commissioner, Gustaw Bernaczek, an engineer, was the manager of a factory at 46 Gdańska Street, which was still labelled as 147 Danziger straße.[12] He was still a lieutenant in the military at the beginning of the 1920s, living at today's 16 20 Stycznia 1920 Street.[13]Marian Turwid, a Polish writer, painter and cultural activist, lived there from the end of WWII till his demise.[14]
This large villa, boasts an impressive portal, flanked by columns, topped by a balcony, mirroring the edifice at Nr.2. Albeit, architectural details are more developed here, with a semi-circular window opening crowning the main facade and building extensions with terraces on the other elevations.
Elevation onto the street
View of the southwestern corner
Bernaczek Villa (left), house at 10 Wyspiańskiego (right)
Villa at 10 Wyspiańskiego street, corner with Sielanka street
Dr. Kazimierz Panek, a professor at the university, was the first landlord of the house.[5]
This large square edifice echoes the villa at the opposing side, with some deviations. One can notice on the facade giving onto Silanka street an entry flanked by columns supporting a lintel and a pediment. The main elevation on Wyspiańskiego street is more modest, although displaying a nice transom light door highlighted by pilasters and wall lesenes.
The house was initially ordered by Czesław Borys, a merchant,[11] to the architect Jan Kossowski. In the early years of WWII, Werner Kampe, Kreisleiter of the local NSDAP, a SSHauptsturmführer and a war criminal, rented a flat in this building. Since the end of the War, the villa has been housing the Wedding Registry Office (Polish: Pałac Ślubów - Urząd Stanu Cywilnego).
Renovated in April–May 2009,[15] the large villa faces Marian Turwid square.
This green area, designed from the start in the Sielanka estate, was the first element of the project to be realized in 1911. Initially named Eigenheim Platz (English: Home square), then Mackensen Platz till the end of the Prussian period of Bydgoszcz (1920), it is located at the heart of Sielanka and covers an area of 0.4 hectares (0.99 acres).[16] The original square design has been modified in 1925, by engineer Marian Guntzl, who created a new garden layout,[4] in the same way as he will design a few years later the city Botanic Garden.
It has been named in reference to Marian Turwid (1905-1987), a Polish writer, painter and cultural activist in Bydgoszcz.[17]
The initial address was 5 Ulica Sielanka, following the German house numbering. The first proprietor, Leonja Gałecka,[9] did not live there once constructed: she only moved in a year later (1929).[12]
The villa is the largest in the street, combining a square footprint on the front with an additional quirky back building.
The initial address was 4 Ulica Sielanka: the house first belonged to a physician, Dr. Mieczysław Nowakowski, working for the city of Bydgoszcz.[5]
The villa is representative of the functionalist style, with cube-shaped elements, as one can still find other instances nearby (e.g. along Ossoliński Avenue).
First registered at 8 Mackensen Platz, it was owned from 1917 to 1922 by Johann Lengwenus, working in the railroad domain.[18] In 1923, the new landlord was Stanisław Bonneberger,[19] who worked as a manager.[20] He lived there until the onset of WWII.
This is the oldest villa in the street, one of the first realization as part of the initial Sielanka project.[4] It bears some late Art Nouveau elements, faded by successive renovations. One can appreciate the barrel roof wall gable and the eyelid dormer.
The commissioner of the villa in the late 1930s was Łucjan Grabowski, a clerk, living at 54 Gdańska Street.[9]
Although heavily marked by early modernist features, one can notice on the Sielanka facade a fanlight above the entrance door and a wall gabledormer. The elevation on Czesłowa Miłosza street supports also a wall dormer, together with a wrought ironbalcony.
View from street crossing
Main facade on Turwid Square
Panorama of Turwid square: in the backdrop Wyspiańskiego street (left), Sielanka street (right)
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1 2 address books of Bromberg and Bydgoszcz, 1914 to 1936, Bydgoszcz maps from 1941, 1947
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↑ Kziążka adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy 1922. Bydgoszcz: Władysław Weber. 1922. p.187.
↑ Grott, Franciszek (1992). W cieniu wielkiej sztuki - okruchy wspomnień o Marianie Turwidzie. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy. pp.159–162.
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