The railway did not survive WWII and is now operated for touristic purposes between two villages west of Nakło: railtracks on Grunwaldzka were pulled part in 1969.
Grunwaldzka stems out of a large city roundabout (Polish: Rondo Grunwaldzkie) where it connects with Focha, Nakielska and Kruszwicka streets.
Built in 1910,[8] by Theodor Patzwald Early modernism The first owners of the tenement were the Goltz brothers (Gustaw, Rudolf and Oskar) who, as construction managers, conducted many projects in the city.
In July 1912, a restaurant and a cafe -Parkhaus- were arranged, with an area as a summer garden: at that time, the place was giving onto the Bydgoszcz Canal,[9] which was covered only in the 1970s.
[11] The early modernist style still keeps influence from Art Nouveau: curved bow windows, a broken segmental pediment, a vegetal motif and two grand loggias adorned with slender columns and wrought iron grillwork.
[14] Although the frontage lost its architectural decoration, one can still appreciate the large canted bay window overlooking the entrance, with a floral motif at its base.
[15] The facade displays delicate Art Nouveau decoration, influenced by early modernism style: canted bay windows with a multitude of architectural motifs as well as an adorned portal or an eyelid dormer.
[9] Mirroring the abuting building at Nr.7, the frontage at Nr.9 provides an explosion of Art Nouveau details: on the facade, on bay windows or on twin top wall gables, using garnished cartouches, lintels and floral patterns.
In particular, on a Sunday of April 1942, SA and SS troops stormed the cemetery, smearing Polish gravestones with cement and destroying metal elements of the graves.
In the late 1970s, urbanization plans regarding the area where Focha, Kruszwicka, Nakielska and Grunwaldzka streets meet imposed to bulldoze a northern strip of the cemetery.
The operation was badly carried out and several errors led to the destruction of a 17th-century chapel, the loss of many family crypts -some of them being work of art edifices- and the demolition of the caretaker's house.
1900s[8] Eclecticism, elements of Art Nouveau Located in front of Starofarny cemetery's main gate, this 3-storey building was possessed by Rudolf Wolff, a merchant in wood and cigars.
[17] One of the earliest house built on this avenue, it recalls many other eclectic edifices of the city one can find in Gdańska, Pomorska or Dworcowa streets.
1875–1899 In 1868, Carl Fiebrandt, a journeyman, founded a small mechanical at workshop 11 Dworcowa Street producing and repairing agricultural machinery.
Looking for a place to expand his industry, he bought in 1875, a plot in Okole suburb, at the intersection of Schaussestrasse and Granzstrasse (today's Grunwaldzka and Graniczna streets) and built there a large one-story hall.
During WWII, the firm produced shells for machine guns that were handloaded in the Bromberg Dynamit Nobel AG Factory located in the southern forest area of the city.
Early 1880s[12] Neo-Renaissance, elements of Neo-Baroque The edifice was initially located on Okole village land, under the address 5 Chaussee Straße: the landlord was Ludwik Dürr, a butcher.
The left side shows adorned windows with festoons in cartouches, pilasters, curved pediments bearing a stylized coat of arms and a top corbel table.
[27] 1894,[9] by Józef Święcicki and Karl Bergner Neo Baroque, Rococo and Mannerism Dr Leonhard Tonn began to run a pharmacy at this spot before commissioning the house.
During the Second World War, the management of the pharmacy was taken over by German chemist Georg Kubisch, a member of SA from Gdańsk, and the name changed to Löwen Apotheke.
It was designed as a cultural and educational center (Polish: Dom Kultury) for the benefit of BELMA employees and later also for students from nearby schools.
[34] Although damaged, the main elevation offers to the viewer topping loggias crowned by a festoon, a bay window with geometrical motifs and an adorned portal.
End 19th century[8] Eclecticism While Nr.72 and 74 had private owners, the tenement at 78 was initially the property of the Prussian Eastern Railway, as its location commanded a view on the line from Bromberg to Kaliningrad.
Early 20th century[8] Modern architecture The ensemble was owned by the Prussian Eastern Railway (German: Preußische Ostbahn) and built in three stages: 1904 (houses 108 to 114), then 1911 (102 and 104) and 1912 (116–118).
[20] 1936-1945[8] Modern architecture At the time of the re-creation of the Polish state, the area was part of the Czyżkówko village, which will be combined with Bydgoszcz territory in the late 1920s.
The construction of the church, funded partly by Antoni Laubitz, the bishop of Gniezno, began in 1936: the design was realized a year earlier by Poznań architect Stefan Cybichowski.
[38] The edifice was not completed at the start of WWII and had been used by Nazi forces as a warehouse to store construction tools, while religious services were held back in the initial chapel.
[39] The cornerstone of the church (coming from an ancient Roman temple on Lech Hill in Gniezno) was laid on May 25, 1983, in a ceremony attended among others by the Primate of Poland, Józef Glemp.
The last estate on Grunwaldzka street prior to leaving Bydgoszcz territory, is Karczma Rzym (English: Rome Inn), a traditional restaurant.
Legend has it that Pan Twardowski spent some time in Bydgoszcz, where, as a celebration as well as a touristic attraction, a figure was recently mounted in a window of a tenement, overseeing the Old Market square.