Jana Karola Chodkiewicza Street, Bydgoszcz

This domain, so-called Hempelscher Felde from the name of a previous landlord, was divided at the end of the 19th century and mapped out to draft streets.

Before 1920, the eastern section of Chodkiewicza street was situated beyond Bydgoszcz city limits, in the rural commune of Bleichfelde (English: Bleachfield).

[4] In 1902, the Bromberg seat, ancestor of today's Bydgoszcz Housing Cooperative (Polish: Bydgoska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa) used loans from the Prussian government to build in a 6.5 hectares (16 acres)-area, north of Bleichfelder Strasse (previous name of Chodkiewicza), a real estate project of two-story, single-family brick houses called Villen Kolonie.

The ensemble was completed in two years and caused a serious crisis on the real estate market of Bromberg center: as a result, the city refused to connect the Villenkolonie Bleichfelde to the municipal water supply and energy infrastructure until 1920.

Built in the 1930s by Paweł Wawrzon Modern architecture Adam Wysocki, running a business of chimney sweeping, commissioned the building in the early 1930s.

Built 1932–1933 by Józef Grodzki Modern architecture This functionalist tenement, together with the opposite one at 100 Gdańska street, strongly contrasts with the ancient buildings of the main downtown thoroughfare.

Renovated in the late 2010s, part of the original decor (door carpentry, metal balcony balustrades, ceramic tiles) is still preserved.

[18] 1909–1910[19] presumably by Rudolf Kern Landhaus style Built well before the building at today's corner with Gdańska street, the house bore for a long time the address 120 Dantziger straße.

On a side wall, the construction date, Erbau im Jahre 1909–10, is inscribed inside a stuccoed coat of arms adorned by festoons.

[19] Erich Lindenburger designed the villa as a different version of the one at Nr.4: a larger gambrel roof, a small bow window on the ground floor and still some late-Art Nouveau/early modern architecture features.

One can underlight in this large edifice the hip roofing, a corner bay window garnished with a stylized mascaron together with a vegetal stuccoed motif on top of one of the facades.

[19] In the middle of the 1930s, one of the tenant was Jan Montowski, a gynecology surgeon at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Bydgoszcz (then called Szpital Św.

Alfred Schleusener designed a house with Art Nouveau hints (round corners roof, light stucco on facade pillars), but his mind was well oriented towards the then nascent trend of modern architecture.

Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.A/1384 (September 16, 2008)[30] 1907,[21] by Rudolf Kern[31] Art Nouveau The first landlord and building commissioner was Friedrich Fiedler, a merchant.

A superb round gable overlooking the terrace on top of the avant-corps is adorned with representative Art Nouveau motifs: a figure head, flanked by vegetal festoons.

1910–1911,[32] by Johannes Cornelius[19] Art Nouveau Friedrich Fiedler, merchand,[19] owner of the abutting building at Nr.14, contracted another local architect for this project.

[35] Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.743200-A/1575 (November 30, 2010)[30] 1903[21] The commissioner of the edifice was the agricultural union (German: landwirtschaft verein) which used it as its seat till the start of WWII.

[38] Both facades combine eclectic-neo-classical style (symmetry in the openings, corner bay window), and Art Nouveau features (vegetal motifs, rosettes, festoons, curved shape decoration inside cartouches).

The building offers Art Nouveau details (cartouches), mixed with early modernist features together with wooden elements (including wattle and daub).

The following houses are remnants on Chodkiewicza street of the Villen Kolonie estate scheme developed in the early 1900s, hence their unity in architectural fashion.

Other instances of villas from this project are still visible in transverse avenues (Płocka, Kzięda Piotra Wawrzyniaka, Ksiẹcia Józefa Poniatowkiego).

These edifices feature similar traits (so-called Landhaus Style), in particular the use of wattle and daub technique to recall traditional aspects.

[39] The German organization Deutscher Schulverein had purchased the plot in 1928, but the municipal authorities were more than reserved on this project of an Albrecht Duerer Schule in Bydgoszcz, thus delaying the issue of the building permit.

[42] Beginning of the 20th century[21] Eclecticism First sign of the building dates back to 1908, when Adolf Golß, a builder contractor, is listed as landlord.

[8] At the time, the tenement was registered as located on the secondary path, at 9 Yorkstraße (present day Poniatowkiego street) and housed on the ground floor a shop run by Bernardt Remler, a locksmith by trade.

[8] Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601267, Reg.A/1055 (March 18, 1997)[30] 1911,[21] by Albert Schütze Studio The building of the Prevention Police Department was initially an orphanage.

[45] German occupation had the facility devoted to child care, as a municipal hospital with infection, ENT, ophthalmology and orthopedics departments.

[15] Beginning of the 20th century[21] Art Nouveau The tenement was owned by Josef Becker, an entrepreneur who launched a Dairy city cafe (German: milchkurenstadt) called Hohenzollern, at this location, then 30 Kufürstenstraße.

[34] The concept was to sell on the spot dairy produced directly from the cows, in a cafe-like environment, similar to what was fashionable in the beer gardens.

Although bruised, the tenement still displays Art Nouveau features: On the side, one can still recognize the terrace which is present on some ancient pictures, from the time of the dairy cafe.