Bocianowo Street is a 600 metres (2,000 ft) long path in the northern part of Bydgoszcz city.
[2] The path of Bocianowo street can be traced back to an 1876 city map, where the axis is underlined in the northern area of "Brenkenhoff".
[6] One can make out cartouches, the tympanum above the gate and the pediments of the first floor bearing the initial "K", recalling the first landlord, "Kowalkowski".
[3] The square, delimited by Bocianowo and Pomorska streets, bears since 1973, the sculpture Wings of the Sea (Polish: Skrzydła morza), by Anna Szalast.
[11] The tenement has been restored in 2021–2022,[6] highlighting many architectural details: stuccoed motifs, festoons and a lavishly adorned portal with a plastered transom.
1898[4] Art Nouveau Initially at 48 Brenkenhofs Straße, the building's landlord was Mr and Mrs Kolbe, working as restaurateurs.
Late 1890s[10] Eclecticism Cäsar Klettke, a butcher, owned this edifice from the end of the 19th century till the rebirth of Poland in 1920.
Early 1880s, 1905[14] Eclecticism, Art Nouveau This tenement, originally at 1 Wörth Straße, was the property of Julius Hanke;[14] in 1890, Ferdinand Klatte purchased it[15] and kept it till the turn of the 20th century.
[16] The facades display few elements save for Art Nouveau adornment of the openings (stuccoed woman faces, vegetal motifs and festoons).
1910-1911[4] (No19) 1907-1908[4] (No22/22a) Art Nouveau At the time of its construction, Nr.19 building was located at "33 Mittelstraße" (present day Sienkiewicza Street): its owner Friedrich Hohberg was running there a shop selling colonial goods (German: Kolonialwaren) and drugs.
[17] Although worn, Nr.19 facade showcases a grand bay window topped by a terrace and a large ogee shaped wall gable.
[20] The elevation presents nice details, from the bossage on the ground floor, to the adorned pedimented windows to the corbel table running on the top.
It was designed by Bartosz Bujanowski from Bydgoszcz and Łuksza Berżer from Wrocław as the result of street art classes attended by local children and adolescents.
One can discern floral motifs flanking the entrance door as well as shape vegetal designs in cartouches on the bottom of both bay windows.
Radtke worked as a teacher at Adlershorst, a close suburban town south west of then Bromberg and lived in "Schulstraße" (today Dąbrowskiego street in Szwederowo district.
[6] One can now appreciate the balanced facade from the eclectic period (end of 19th century) mixed with plastered Art Nouveau motifs adorning the elevation gable.
[31] From 1920 to the start of WWII, two hairdress businesses stood at street level, run by Jan Fritzkowski (Nr.49) and Stanisław Nowakowski (Nr.51).
The facade of Nr.49 keeps only one Art Nouveau element: the floral-motif stucco on the door lintel, bearing the year of erection of the house.