Ossoliński Alley has been laid out in 1903, in the same conditions of urban development as Adam Mickiewicz Alley in the eastern area of Gdańska Street called "Hempelscher Felde":[2] this plot was bought in the 1890s by the municipality to develop a garden city, the Sielanka estate, based on the works of Hermann Stübben.

The construction of the avenue has been completed in 1903; this was then the widest street in the city: 40 m wide, it had two carriageways, and in a pedestrian walkway in the middle with lawn and trees (red oaks with festoons of Virginia creepers.

Minor Basilica dedication has been carried out during a ceremony chaired by Pope John Paul II, on 3 June 1997[9] Registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.601253, Reg.

The western area is laid out with buildings, the eastern one is a 5 ha zone of field vegetation, with livestock, greenhouses and a barn.

[8] 1927-1929 by Bronisław Jankowski[11] Polish National Style This large house, (620 m2), was supposed to be a residential building with a lawyer office for a famous family of Polish interwar, the Felcynów[13] In the 1930s, the villa housed the "Headquarters District Command of Border Guard", then, during the nazi occupation, the Westpreussen seat of Selbstschutz of western Prussia.

During those dark times, it also housed the Abwehr: the decoration included a series of rooms dedicated for senior military officers (spa and leisure facilities).

On the facade a plaque by Alexander Dętkoś, unveiled on 17 September, commemorates Polish Border Guard personnel murdered by NKVD soldiers during the Katyn massacre.