Prevention Police Building

At the time, the building was located outside of the administrative borders of Bromberg, in the suburban municipality of Bielawy (German: Bleichfelde).

[3] Due to financial shortage during the construction, initial plans were modified, cutting out architectural decoration items such as dormers, a middle tower, reliefs and adorned cartouche.

1 ha), ensuring a supply of vegetables and fruits: its area covered the entire block delimited today by streets Poniatowskiego, Chodkiewicza, Powstańczów Wlkp and Ogińskiego.

[5] In the facility Ludwik Regamey hold a concert at a banquet of the Borderland Internat, together with the dentist Idzi Świtała, in February 1921.

[6] In 1936, the city Board took the institution over and allocated it for educational purposes: in July 1937, it exhibited art works donated by Leon Wyczółkowski and Konstanty Laszczka to the Municipal Museum.

[2] During World War II, the building was first used to hold Polish prisoners detained by the Gestapo, and then reconverted into a German military hospital.

[3] These works allowed the billeting of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, or Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, joined in 1956 by the Regional Headquarters of the State Militia.

Since the end of World War II, the entire city block, where the former orphanage's garden used to stand, has been used by Police organizations.

While several dormers shed light in the attic (in particular by using eyelid shapes), the back of the eastern wing, lower than the front building and covered with a flat roof, was originally a terrace.

The portal is flanked up by stuccoed busts of children (a boy on the right and a girl on the left),[3] bringing to mind the initial function of the edifice.

In the basement there were a kitchen, storage rooms and showers, and on the first floor bedrooms, an infirmary, housing for orphanage supervisors, toilets and washrooms.

Large halls are present in both wings, the middle body possess an open staircase, lighted through the oblong glazing windows of the central avant-corps.

Laying of the foundation stone in 1913
The orphanage on a 1914 map, outside city's limits