Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki Street, Bydgoszcz

The presence of the Brda hotel practically closes the western tip of Śniadeckich Street to traffic with a final very narrow section.

The importance of this avenue slowly decreased with the growing role that took Dworcowa Street, parallel to the south, but broader and larger, which had been used since 1888 by a newly built streetcar.

Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601416-Reg.A/889, June 15, 1993[3] 1850–1860 Neo-renaissance Lewin Louis Aronsohn was a famous banker, Jewish active member, politician and philanthropist.

[8] Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601419, Reg.A/1098/1-2, April 4, 1994[3] 1873[9] Eclecticism The ensemble, at then Elisabethstraße 2, was first the property of Robert Frenmark, an army Major.

Elements worth noticing are the adorned gate, the ground floor loggia topped by a terrace and the majestically decorated bartizan crowned by a finial.

[17] In the 1920s, the tenement was inhabited by displaced Poles that left former eastern territories as a consequence of the Peace of Riga: nobles, doctors, officers.

1893,[9] by Karl Bergner Eclecticism, Neo-Renaissance August Freitwald, a master shoemaker owned this building which address was then Elisabethstraße 50,[25] also landlord of Nr.18.

[32] The facade boasts elements of various architectural styles: bay windows, balconies, cartouches with ornaments, steep gables on both sides and dormers.

[13] The elevation displays Art Nouveau characteristics cherished by Fritz Weidner: asymmetrical composition (bay window vs balconies or dissymmetrical wings), wavy lines, decorative motifs.

Worth mentioning are the portal with stylized woman figure, floral decor, a putti scenery and the wattle and daub roof top crowned with a finial.

[9] In the courtyard of this building, Bruno Sommerfeld, an eminent piano-maker, opened in 1905 a locksmith's shop which soon started repairing keyboards (German: Reparaturwerkstatt).

[37] The elevation is parted in two different height facade by the section standing above the passageway, which is adorned by long pilasters, flanking a window on each level.

The tenement is particularly noticeable by its grand bay window overhanging the corner: first floor is adorned with columns, rosettes on the lintel and a triangular pediment, second displays pilasters crowned by a tented roof.

In 1946 the municipal authorities allocated the temple to the Old Catholic Church in Poland (Polish: Kościół Polskokatolicki w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), parish in Bydgoszcz which existed since 1925, but had no official location.

Medieval style of the temple boasts buttresses, pointed windows, an entrance portal, pinnacles and cross-ribbed vaults chancel.

Recently renovated, the elevation boasts neo-Renaissance forms inspired by the Italian Cinquecento: bossages and simplicity of motifs renders perfectly the symmetry of this house.

In the corner giving onto both streets, a remarkable bay window on two levels, flanked at each floor by lean columns emphasizes this portion of the facade.

In his next realizations, Józef Święcicki will elaborate further on his architectural style, adding more details and features, like building at Tenement at Freedom Square 1 (1896) or at 1/3 Stary Port (1893–1905).

[19] The renovated facade exposes a nice wrought iron balcony, overlooking the large wooden double door onto the street.

Both balconies have a bear cub holding a shield that stands in the corner: it is a reminder of the past activity of a metal craftwork company in the district.

[45] An elaborate frieze runs between first and second level, and two windows are topped with triangular pediments: the one on the right side is adorned with a bas-relief of bearded male head with a hat.

[37] Beautifully restored in 2015–2016, the facade boasts a ground floor with bossage and a main gate flanked by columns and topped by a triangular pediments, like a temple.

Upper floors display typical Neo-Renaissance details, with adorned pediments, pilasters and an inconspicuous figure head in the top triangular gable tympanum.

The designer, famous local architect Józef Święcicki, used a project drawn by his stepfather, Anton Hoffman, a master bricklayer.

[49] 1882[50] Eclecticism, Neo-Renaissance The building, then at Elisabeth Straße 39, was owned by a rentier, Carl Wilhelm Feyertag, living at "Bahnhoffstraße 11" (now 27 Dworcowa Street).

[51] The wings of this corner tenement house draw attention towards the double architectural legacy of the Prussian partition and the period of the Polish People's Republic (PRL).

[53] 1894-1895[9] Eclecticism, elements of Neo-Baroque Originally at Elisabethstraße 27, it was the property of a real estate owner (German: Zimmermeister), Michael Engelhard, living at Nr.57.

The elevation is essentially remarkable by the impressive decorated balconies with Neo-Baroque accents: balustrades, heavy corbels, pilasters around the openings and a highly ornamented grand lintel on the second floor.

The building has been home place of Szczepan Jankowski, a Polish blind composer, organist and conductor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Right facade displays early modernist elements, expressed in the very shape of the elevation, with the round bay window topped by a balcony, and the multitude of narrow and thin openings.

The street in 1905
Elisabethstraße on an 1876 map