Stanisław Rolbieski tenement in Bydgoszcz

The Stanisław Rolbieski tenement is a historical habitation building located at Gdańska Street N°96, in Bydgoszcz.

Stanisław Rolbieski tenement
Polish: Kamienica Stanisława Rolbieskiego w Bydgoszczy
Tenement from Gdanska Street
General information
Type	Tenement
Architectural style	Eclecticism & French Neo-Renaissance
Location	96 Gdanska Street, Bydgoszcz,  Poland
Coordinates	53°8′03″N 18°0′43″E
Groundbreaking	1891
Completed	1892[1]
Client	Hugo Hecht
Technical details
Floor count	3
Design and construction
Architect	Józef Święcicki

Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street between Zamoyskiego street and Chodkiewicz street.

It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street:

• Villa Carl Grosse at N°84;
• Otto Riedl Tenement at N° 85;
• Villa Hugo Hecht at N°88-90;
• Tenement at 91 Gdanska street.

History

The house was built in 1891-1892,[1] commissioned by Hugo Felix Franz Hecht, a timber merchant an dealer, and realized by Józef Święcicki. At the time, the address was 120 Danziger Straße.[2]

It was the last part of a series of six close stylish buildings ordered by Hugo Hecht[3] in Gdanska Street and realized by Józef Święcicki, together with buildings located at 88/90 and 92/94.

During interwar period, the building belonged to the engineer Stanisław Rolbieski,[4] manager of Karbid Wielkopolski SA. He was an entrepreneur, activist, and town councilor of the city, founder of the factory Kabel Polski Sp zoo in Bydgoszcz[5]

During the Nazi occupation the edifice housed the German Labour Front.

Architecture

The building has the homogeneous style of the other habitation houses commissioned by Hugo Hecht (N°88-90 & 92-94), with a facade decoration referring to the French Neo-Renaissance forms.[6] The symmetry axis running between each buildings is still visible in the shape of a massive roof topped bay window.

In the same area, Józef Święcicki also realized other edifices:

• Hotel "Pod Orlem" at 14 Gdańska street;
• Oskar Ewald Tenement at 30 Gdańska street;
• Józef Święcicki tenement at 63 Gdańska street;
• Tenement at 86 Gdańska street;
• Villa Hugo Hecht at 88-90 Gdańska street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at 92-94 Gdańska street;
• Tenement at 1 Plac Wolności.

Gallery

• 
  Frontage seen from Gdańska street
• 
  Detail of the facade frieze
• 
  Window decoration details
• 
  Detail of the upper facade

See also

• Bydgoszcz
• Gdanska Street in Bydgoszcz
• Hugo Hecht tenement in Bydgoszcz
• Józef Święcicki
• Villa Hugo Hecht in Bydgoszcz
• (in Polish) Downtown district in Bydgoszcz

References

1. Gminna Ewidencja Zabytków Miasta Bydgosky. Bydgoszcz: Miasta Bydgoszczy. 24 April 2013. p. 80.
2. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1895: auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1895.
3. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1889 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Materialien. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1889.
4. Książka Adresowa Miasta Bydgoszczy : wydana w roku 1925. Bydgoszcz. 1925. p. 255.
5. Chamot, Jan (1973). Tak rodził się "Kabel" - Kalendarz Bydgoski. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy. p. 59.
6. Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny. Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.

Bibliography

• Bręczewska-Kulesza Daria, Derkowska-Kostkowska Bogna, Wysocka A. (2003). Ulica Gdańska. Przewodnik historyczny (in Polish). Bydgoszcz: Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury w Bydgoszczy. ISBN 8386970103.

Panorama at Gdanska street. The tenement is on the left.