On the southern hills opposite the Wool Market square, a band of 200 Swedish partisans camped, nearby a tavern called Swedes.

[2] In the 16th and 17th centuries fresh water was supplied from the Five ponds valley in Szwederowo down to public municipal wells, using hollowed tree trunks chiseled to fit together.

A local census of the region recorded in 1833 that 275 people lived in the village and farm of Schwedenberg (German for Szwederowo): 174 with Evangelical faith, 94 Catholics and 7 Jews in 27 houses.

[12] Despite these organic relationships with the main city, Szwederowo and the neighboring villages (Małe Bartodzieje, Okole, Wilczak and Bielawy) formed separate urban bodies outside of the administrative area of Bromberg, leading to a somehow chaotic spatial development.

Inhabitants of the district usually went picnicking on Sundays to the so-called Bielicki Forest (Polish: Puszcza Bydgoska), stretching eastward between Bydgoszcz and Toruń, organizing orchestra concerts, gastronomic fêtes and competitions.

[8] On the churchyard of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at Ugory street lays a mass grave of 21 murdered Poles detained while leaving the church after a service on Sunday, September 10, 1939.

[18] Starting from the late 1950s, the city authorities have been identifying places where to erect large housing projects: a first cluster of 11-storey buildings was constructed in the second half the 1960s in Stroma street, following a typical functionalist design.

Under the supervision of architect Janusz Gołębiewski, urban planning works called Miastoprojekt - Bydgoszcz were carried out by the Design and Research Office of General Construction (Polish: Biuro Projektowo-Badawczym Budownictwa).

Principal paths of Szwederowo districts are: The street is an old communication route connecting Bydgoszcz with settlements located in south Kujavia.

Szwederowo district started to develop green domains in the 1830s, with the initiative in 1832 of Carl von Wissmann, then president of the administrative region of Bromberg.

Almost 200 children from neighbouring farm villages (Gorzyszków, Nowy Dwór, Szwederowo, Bielice, Biedaszkowo and Wilczak) attended this Protestant school.

[37] The grand oak in the courtyard has been planted March 23, 1897, during the Prussian period, to commemorate the 100th birth of the German emperor Wilhelm I: it has been listed as a "Polish Natural Monument".

From 1926 onwards, the institution took the name of Bydgoszcz Third Degree General Public School Nr.XI - Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (Polish: Publiczna Szkoła Powszechna stopnia trzeciego im J.H.

On October 29, 1986, a memorial plaque was unveiled, in memoriam of Seweryn Sobecki, a school teacher murdered by the Nazis in the Valley of Death.

In 2018, the facility has been renovated (roofing replacement, lightning protection system and attic insulation), while a bit earlier, the pitch underwent refurbishing.

[42] In 2019, conservation works on the facade have been implemented, including bricks cleaning and maintenance, replacement of damaged mortar and other elements, and renovation of the gutter system.

Heinrich Ernst Dietz (1840-1901), was a German MP to the Landtag of Prussia, a councilor and a Bromberg magistrate: his will (August 8, 1911) established a foundation for the construction of an orphanage in Bydgoszcz, leaving 400,000 Deutsche Mark at the disposal of the city authorities.

During the interwar period, the orphanage kept operating, as Henry Dietz Shelter for Orphans (Polish: Przytułek dla Sierot im.

In 1923, after an agreement with the municipality authorities, Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul from Chełmno took over the house caretaking role.

[45] In 1996, as part of the celebration of the 650th anniversary of Bydgoszcz settlement, a bilingual (Polish-German) memorial plaque dedicated to Heinrich Dietz was placed on the wall of the house fencing.

[47] The city administrative real estate (Polish: Administracja Domów Miejskich-ADM) was then billeted in the building until 2010, when it moved to private hands, after a renovation in 2007.

[52] The villa was to be built at the foot of the Wiessmann Hill, rich in alleys, fountains and observation terraces, as a home for lonely well-off gentlemen and wealthy maidens.

[53] After WWII, with the building of a retirement home on Mińska street (along Bydgoszcz Canal), the villa became a tenement house and on February 15, 1951, it was taken over by Army Recruiting Command.

[55] In 1935, a 7.5 metres (25 ft) high monumental cross with the figure of a larger-than-normal crucified Jesus Christ was erected on the place facing the bathing house.

In 1992, on the initiative of the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the Association of Szwederowo's friends (Polish: Koło Miłośników Szwederowa), the monument has been rebuilt.

[56] In 1934, local sculptor Teodor Gajewski realized Children playing with fish (Polish: Dzieci bawiące się z rybą), incorporating a foutain facing the new city baths inaugurated on November 10, 1928.

[58] On November 17, 1996, Polish Labour Party unveiled a granite memorial plaque on the very place where stood the jamming mast, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the destructive riot led by Bydgoszcz citizens.

On November 12, 1995, at the initiative of the Szwederowo Housing Council, a stone obelisk was inaugurated, bearing a commemorative plaque in honor of the general (for the 240th anniversary of his birth).

It bears the inscription Monument In Honor of the Victims of Nazi Crimeswith plaques informing that Here 21 inhabitants of Szwederowo are buried, murdered by the occupier on September 10, 1939.

[60] The monument has been unveiled on 25 September 1993, at the initiative of the Association of Szwederowo's Friends (Polish: Koło Miłośników Szwederowa) and the Society of the Friends of Bydgoszcz (Polish: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy): it is standing at 26 Maria Konopnicka street and has been officially dedicated by Ryszard Pruczkowski, priest from the neighbouring parish of Corpus Christi.