The development of the street is associated with the building of Bydgoszcz Main Railway Station in 1851, which led to assimilating the close settlement of Bocianowo (German: Brenkenhoff) into the city precinct.
[3] On an 1861 map of the area, the vicinity of the railway station shows dispersed housings: it is only in the early 20th century that compact constructions make their appearance along the street.
[14] The project encompassed: In addition, the section leading from Matejki street to Main Railway Station has seen the restoration of tram circulation and the refurbishment of a historic building by Fritz Weidner in the immediate vicinity, converted to a Municipal Cultural Center.
1893–1894,[22] by Carl Stampehl Historicism Eduard Merres, an instrument craftsman for surgery, nursery and optics, was the first owner of the house, then located at Bahnhofstraße 2.
It is almost a classical one, but for the asymmetry: on first level, one notices heavily adorned windows (triangle pediments, pilasters with consoles), the second floor is less decorated and topped by a dense Corbel table.
1887,[18] by Józef Święcicki and Anton Hoffmann Eclecticism Julius and Herß Krojanter,[25] were the first owners of the house at Bahnhofstraße 97: they were cereals merchants and had their counter in the building.
[27] The elevation has been renovated in 2015, underlying the delicacy of the ornamentation: the front pediment, the gate frame with its two facing figures, the pilasters and the corbel table.
[37] The main elevation still awaits better days, however, one can notice characteristic elements of neoclassic architecture: symmetry, triangular pedimented windows, cartouches with rosettes and corbel table.
In particular, one can appreciate the preserved entrance, with a wrought iron grillwork adorned with sunflowers and leaves, as well as the large wood double door topped with a transom light.
[28] In 1888, Hermann Löhnert moved here as landlord: he was the founder and director of a joint-stock company of a factory producing machines for foundries,[41] established in 1868[42] in Bydgoszcz.
Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601287-Reg.A/968, November 12, 1992[17] 1880,[18] by Albert Rose[44] Eclecticism Friedrish Giese, a brewer at Bahnhofstraße 7a[45] was the first owner of the house.
[48] It is now a habitation building, where the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bydgoszcz[49] moved in 2019 -previously it was located at 49 Śniadeckich street.
The building renovated in 2019 a nice decoration on the first floor, with pediments topping windows and ornamented cartouche beneath, as well as a row of round openings below the roof.
[56] The house has been refurbished down to minute details in early 2018[57] One can admire the quality of the motifs: pilasters, rosettes, bossage on facade edges, balustrades, table corbel on top and a finely crafted winged helmet head of Hermes inside the pediment overlooking the main door.
[58] In the 1910s, the house was divided into five properties,[37] which landlords were: Mr. Meyer and Mr Giefe, rentiers not living in Bromberg, Hermann Lemke, a baker who had his shop there, Jahnke Jr., an engineer and Wilhelm Tornow, a mechanic.
1905,[60] by Erich Lindenburger Eclecticism, Munich Secession elements Bruno Grawunder, a jeweler, supposedly a relative of Wilhelm at Nr.45, had this house built at then Bahnhofstraße 20.
Facades display a northern Neo-Renaissance style with elaborate ornament and scrollwork (on pediments, cartouches), balustrades, pinnacles, together with stone blocks imitation, bay windows and a mansard roof.
The massive building shows balanced facade with two grand bay windows, several balconies and a large terrace running between the gable, beneath dormers.
1903-1904[18] Eclecticism At its inception, landlord of actual tenement (then at Bahnhofstraße 71) was Theodore Flöther,[64] who was the founder of a firm producing agricultural machines in Jasień, Lubusz Voivodeship.
First floor windows are framed with delicate ornamentation and scrollwork, especially the larger one on the right, with its early Art Nouveau tympanon motifs inside the triangular pediment.
Refurbished in 2018, one can now make out fine details, such as scrollworks, a row of lion's heads crowning the elevation and a nice stretch of rosettes spanning like a frieze.
[37] The facade displays a typical Neo-Renaissance style, with Italian forms: triangular and curved pediments, cartouches beneath first floor windows, a minute avant-corps and a wrought iron entry gate.
One can quote, among others, a highly adorned wrought iron balcony and bay window ensemble with sculpted atlants, elaborated ornaments, and a cartouche containing the initials CA for Albin Cohnfeld, commissioner of the building.
The entire facade, topped by a table corbel, possess on second and third floors a very rich decoration, with delicate flower and vegetal motifs, in pediments or around the openings.
[82] 1891-1892[18] Eclecticism The building at then Bahnhoffstraße 59 has been designed to house the activity of Franz Bengsch,[83] who ran a wood transport company there until the end of World War I.
[84] Since 1990, the building houses the Foreign Language Teacher Training College or NKJO (Polish: Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych w Bydgoszczy), subordinated to universities of Poznań and Warsaw.
The gate frame is ornamented with columns and a pediment where stands a large sculpture of a sitting crowned lion, holding a coat of arms with shields.
[92] The main elevation, now refurbished, reveals Art Nouveau inclinations: curved shapes of the gable, portals and transom emphasize the Secession inspiration of Rudolf Kern.
1899[18] Neo-Renaissance A restaurateur at then Bahnhofstraße 55, Emil Geste, sold in 1899 the tenement[95] to Clara and Reinhold Rosente, wine and delicatessen merchands, who owned already the adjoining house at Nr.54 (corner with Śniadecki Street).
[39] The facade reflects nicely Neo-Renaissance style: symmetry of the ensemble (balconies disposition, gates locations), specific decoration of openings per level (pediments with Acanthus or bare).