Carl Peschel tenement in Bydgoszcz

The Carl Peschel tenement is a historical habitation building in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It is registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.

Carl Peschel tenement
Polish: Kamienica Carla Peschela w Bydgoszczy
Tenement from Gdanska Street
General information
Type	Tenement
Architectural style	Eclecticism & rokoko
Classification	N°A/11, October 12, 1999 [1]
Location	101 Gdanska Street, Bydgoszcz,  Poland
Coordinates	53°8′00″N 18°0′38″E
Groundbreaking	1892
Completed	1893
Client	Carl Peschel
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect	Józef Święcicki

Location

The building stands on the western side of Gdańska Street, at N°101, between Świętojańska and Chocimska Streets, opposite Zamoyskiego street.

It stands close to remarkable tenements in the same street, among others:

• Tenement at 91 Gdańska Street;
• Hugo Hecht tenement at 92-94Gdańska Street;
• Carl Bradtke Tenement at 93 Gdańska Street;
• Tenement at 95 Gdańska Street;
• Stanisław Rolbieski tenement at 96 Gdańska Street;
• Reinhold Zschiesche Tenement in Bydgoszcz at the next crossing.

History

The house was built in 1892-1893, designed by Bydoszcz's architect Józef Święcicki for Carl Peschel, a rentier. At the time, the address was 57 Danziger Straße, Bromberg.[2]

Since its creation, the edifice has been conceived as a renting house (more than 15 inhabitants were registered at this address in 1900)[3] and commercial building.

Features

The building has an eclecticism style facade.

The red brick wall contrasts with the rich, neo-baroque details, the rococo stuccoes -distant reminiscence of northern Mannerism.[4] On the symmetry axis of this two-winged building is placed a gate door with wrought iron decorative elements.

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

• 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.

The building has been put on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List N°601323 Reg.A/11, on October 12, 1999[1]

Gallery

• 
  View from the opposite side of Gdanska street
• 
  Detail of the facade
• 
  Caryatides
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  Pediment detail
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  Door detail

See also

• Bydgoszcz
• Gdanska Street in Bydgoszcz
• Józef Święcicki
• (in Polish) Downtown district in Bydgoszcz

References

1. zabytek|kujawsko-pomorskie|issued=28.02.2014
2. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1894 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1894. p. 167.
3. Adressbuch nebst allgemeinem Geschäfts-Anzeiger von Bromberg und dessen Vororten auf das Jahr 1900 : auf Grund amtlicher und privater Unterlagen. Bromberg: Dittmann. 1900.
4. 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.