Villa Carl Grosse

Villa Carl Grosse in Bydgoszcz
Villa Carl Grosse in Bydgoszcz
Polish: Willa Carla Grosse w Bydgoszczy
	View from Gdanska street
General information
Type	Villa
Architectural style	German Historicism
Classification	Nr.601312-Reg.A/1079/1-2, 13 December 1994
Location	84 Gdanska street, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Country	Poland
Coordinates	53°7′59″N18°0′40″E / 53.13306°N 18.01111°E
Construction started	1898
Completed	1899
Client	Carl Grosse
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Karl Bergner

Last updated October 13, 2023

The Villa Carl Grosse is a historical house in downtown Bydgoszcz, Poland. It is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.

Location

The building is somehow setback on the eastern side of Gdanska Street (Nr.84), at the intersection with Zamoyskiego street.

History

The villa was built in 1898-1899 by architect Karl Bergner, following an order from Carl Grosse.

Mr Grosse ran in Bydgoszcz a cork factory (German : Ostdeutsche Kork-Fabrik), with the company seat here (Danzigerstrasse 127).^[2]

A subsequent owner - wood wholesaler Otto Schmidt - in the years 1918-1920 enriched the villa: he had built the decor that is still preserved today.^{[ citation needed ]}

The building has undergone many renovations with succeeding owners and users. For many years in the 1920s, rumor went that the villa belonged to actress Apolonia Chalupiec, aka Pola Negri, from which it had been purchased by industrialist Jan Kłossowski, called "cardboard king", who lived there with his family in the 1930s. In reality, Jan Kłossowski bought the villa from the Bank Ludowy ^[3] (German : Volksbank) in Bydgoszcz and Pola Negri's house was located at Zamoyskiego street 8.

Between 1962 and 1992, the building was the headquarters of the Civic Militia (MO), with a factory shop and a cafeteria.^[4]

Architecture

The tenement is decorated in a style referring to German Historicism.^[5] The villa is separated from the street by a garden. Its facade has an asymmetric block, adorned with decorative bays, avant-corps, loggias and post-and-plank structures.^[5]

The interior is designed in art deco style, by Johanna H. Fricke.^[5] In addition to the stuccoes, worth noticing are stained glass, wooden reliefs (animal and plant motifs) and handrail stairwell. In the ballroom overlooking the garden is placed a fountain decorated with a sculpture of a woman washing her hair.^[5]

The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List Nr.601312 Reg.A/1079/1-2, on 13 December 1994.^[1]

Gallery

View from the garden
View from the garden
Zoom on the facade
Detail of a gable

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References

1 2 zabytek-kujawsko-pomorskie issued 28.02.2014
↑ Addressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1900 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1900. p. 163.
↑ "corporations". Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy: na rok 1933. Bydgoszcz: "Bibljoteka Polska" w Bydgoszczy. 1933. p. 6.
↑ Bydgoszcz Guide. Bydgoszcz: City of Bydgoszcz. July 2014. p. 83. ISBN 83-917786-7-3.
1 2 3 4 Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.

Bibliography

(in Polish)Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.
(in Polish)Czajkowski, Edmund (1987). Na marginesie pewnej informacji. Kalendarz Bydgoski. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy. pp. 39–41.

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[class-1] 1 2 zabytek-kujawsko-pomorskie issued 28.02.2014

[2] Addressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1900 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1900. p. 163.

[3] "corporations". Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy: na rok 1933. Bydgoszcz: "Bibljoteka Polska" w Bydgoszczy. 1933. p. 6.

[4] Bydgoszcz Guide. Bydgoszcz: City of Bydgoszcz. July 2014. p. 83. ISBN 83-917786-7-3.

[BKD-5] 1 2 3 4 Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.

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