First steps were taken in 1873 while celebrating the 100th anniversary of Netze District joining Kingdom of Prussia: a municipal petition was then sent to the government in Berlin supporting the creation of a higher education facility, but the idea did not prevail, mainly because of the low number of high school graduates in Bromberg.

[3] Appeals to the Prussian government succeeded on August 26, 1902, as this time the petition was supported by the governmental program aiming at bolstering the economy of the eastern lands of German Empire.

As consequences of this policy, Prussian authorities decided to create universities in Gdańsk and Poznań, while Bromberg was targeted for hosting a research centre in agricultural production, since the city was located in a highly agriculturally developed area (Kujawy, Krajna, Pałuki, Chełmno Land).

Such institutes already existed in other higher faculties, such as in Königsberg, Wrocław and Berlin, but they were too far away to carry out proper research in relationship with the agriculture in the area of Poznań and Pomerania.

November 15, 1902 conference was held with the participation of Commissioners of Public Works and the Ministry of Finance and Agriculture, on the organizational matters related to the establishment of the institute.

The city authorities Bydgoszcz pledged to give up the construction of the facility area at the contemporary north-eastern edge of the town and there pave new streets – Hohenzollernstrasse and Bülow Platz (today al. Ossolińskich and square Weyssenhoff).

The original name of the institute, Landwirtschaftliche Versuchs und Forschunganstallten (Agricultural testing and research facilities), was changed in September 1906 to Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Landwirtschaft zu Bromberg: it kept this naming till the end of World War I.

The most important scientific achievements from Bromberg institutes were:[4] In 1912, the agricultural chemistry branch set up an experimental farm in Mochle near Bydgoszcz, to conduct extensive research on nutrition and plant and animal development in natural conditions.

Finally, the facility trained professionals in the field of botany, agricultural bacteriology, agrochemicals, land development, and plant or animal pathology.

[2] In 1919, prior to Bydgoszcz returned to Polish territory, employees, research records, plant preparations and laboratory devices were moved to Frankfurt an der Oder, and then to Gorzów Wielkopolski then part of Germany.

The institution was reorganized on the model of a university, echoing the structure known under Prussian rule with four faculties: Agricultural chemistry, Plant pathology, Animal hygiene and Land development.

Notable changes, including a significant increase of scientific personnel, occurred shortly before World War II (April 1938), when Bydgoszcz became the capital of the newly created Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Until 1939, the establishment had the following departments:[3] The facility had experimental fields, indoor horticulture halls, a small park and a meteorological station.

In 1930 Włodzimierz Kulmatycki founded in Bydgoszcz Poland's first scientific institution to study the purity of inland waters.

It allowed the promotion of Bydgoszcz facility to the level of a real university, thanks to the excellent staff coming from the whole country (Lwów, Kraków, Dubliany, Poznań) and favorable local conditions.

In autumn 1939, mass executions were performed, killing many scientists, technicians and administrative personnel,[3] among whom institute director, professor Dr. Vladimir Kulmatycki.

Bydgoszcz branch of the Institute of Plant Breeding and Acclimatization (Polish: Instytut Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin (IHAR)), dealing with genetics, animal husbandry, cytology, embryology, physiology, biochemistry, cultivation and fertilizer, mechanization, crop diseases and pests (sugar beet, fodder beet, rutabaga, turnip, carrot and chicory).

This research department focuses primarily on diagnosis and control of animal disease (horses, domestic cattle).

Bydgoszcz branch of the Central Agricultural Library (Polish: Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza (CBR)) in Warsaw.

Many instances of this architecture can still be noticed in Bydgoszcz: The predominant style is a mix of Neo Gothic and eclecticism, with Historicism and Art Nouveau influences.

It was equipped in the basement with a boiler room, warehouses for glass instruments, chemicals and coal storage and a service apartment.

Inside one can still admire preserved forged iron balustrade staircase decorated with stylized acanthus leaves, multicolored terrazzo floor with geometric motifs and a wooden coffered ceiling in the hall.

[2] Today, the edifice houses UKW branches: institutes of Mathematics, Environmental Mechanics and Applied Informatics, department of Physics, and a subsidiary of the Main University Library.

The main front façade still exhibits an oak door with oval shaped transom light made of crystal panes.

On the latter, a Neo-Baroque coat of arms displays the symbols of agriculture (a beehive, a shovel, a hoe, a plow) and a cornucopia overflowing with fruits.

[2] The quaint elevation characteristics rest on the variation of architectural elements: bay windowss, balconies, loggias, avant-corps, gables.

Ground floor housed accommodations, a library with a chemistry lab, and the main laboratory spaces with dedicated nitrogen and phosphoric acid areas.

The architecture exhibits robust heavy blocks and two large avant-corps flanking its edges, making it squatter than the surrounding buildings.

[2] Inside one can notice, still preserved, an adorned staircase, a mosaic displaying the date of construction of ("1904–1905") on the main entrance ground floor, as well as a symbolic representation of a snake wrapped around agricultural products.

The Monk and Nun tiled gable is regularly pierced with dormers and chimneys, overlooked by a middle pinnacle.